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Could plausibly be incompetence. It would have limited spying capabilities. Could plausibly be denial to reduce backlash. I'd be interested in how widespread
by hx8 3y ago
Could plausibly be incompetence. It would have limited spying capabilities. Could plausibly be denial to reduce backlash. I'd be interested in how widespread those coffee machines are.
If I worked in a warehouse job with a strong anti-union position I'd assume the whole place was bugged. Even convincing people to act as if they are under surveillance would be a huge anti-union win.
- delichon 3y agoManagers surveilling employees is also known as management. It's a fairly long standing and widely accepted practice. Is it really very different when done with a webcam compared to a Mark I eyeball?
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoYes, because your Mark I eyeball can't record and reproduces images to post to social media or as evidence in a labor lawsuit.
- delichon 3y agoThe video can also be subpoenad and used to support the labor side of a lawsuit.
- phone8675309 3y ago_If_ it's known to exist by the person suing
- delichon 3y agoGood point. There's more accountability on both sides if everyone is aware of the recording.
- shermantanktop 3y agoUhhh, if you work an office job at a company of any significant size, your work laptop is loaded with monitoring software. Might be labeled “antivirus” or “threat detection” but it can and does watch everything you do. Perhaps there are union rules against that somewhere, but I doubt it.
- fabian2k 3y agoYou are assuming US rules here, invasive monitoring of employees can be illegal in other countries.
- shermantanktop 3y agoSure, true. But I would bet that, whatever the country, a pile of people at every large company are trying to monitor the maximum amount of your activity they can without breaking the law. You used the word "invasive" -- that's of course an ambiguous phrase to the common person, but it's not going to ambiguous to the security/fraud group at a big company. They will know that they can do X but not Y, and they will do the most of X that they can.
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoIt varies, for sure, but more security sensitive organisations like... anything that works with computers these days will need to have their systems locked down, which includes access control and possibly internet monitoring, at the very least to block malware websites. As well as a block on VPNs and other ways to circumvent those blocks. Of course, this quickly escalates to "no porn", "no video games", and other non-work things. But those are usually larger organizations where they lose track of individuals and their behaviour.
- cool_dude85 3y agoIt is both wise for a union organizer to assume the whole place is bugged, and bad for the company to bug the whole place. Both can be true.