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A previous employeer used Spector 360[1] on the majority of workstations. It would monitor everything including taking a screengrab every 5 seconds that you cou
by gav 14y ago
A previous employeer used Spector 360[1] on the majority of workstations. It would monitor everything including taking a screengrab every 5 seconds that you could then watch later.
They'd sit down employees and playback fast-forwarded video showing how much time was wasted on Facebook, personal email, shopping, etc. It's horribly invasive but it meant everyone was too scared to use work computers for personal things.
[1] http://www.spector360.com/ http://www.spector360.com/
- nephesh 14y agoI'm sure productivity skyrocketed /s
- venomsnake 14y agoIt would be fun to see the people's productivity on that system. And who of the tech people will try to break it as a sport.
- hfsktr 14y agoMy old job used spector. I'm pretty sure everyone knew it but people would still be on FB playing games when you walked past. I believe IT was the last to get it and for about a week after they installed it on our machines it didn't work because Microsoft Essentials disabled it as malware. I don't think they ever looked at it unless they wanted to fire someone and didn't want to pay unemployment and needed proof that they weren't doing their job.
- stoic 14y agoThis is pretty much why they had this at HG
- tekacs 14y agoGiven the way that hovers over employees, I think there's a fair case in there to unofficially rename the product 'Spectre'. -.-' shudder