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Re:The Rise of Workplace Surveillance by gadders on Monday November 06, 2017 @06:32AM (#15634770)
A bank I worked for last year rolled out monitoring software to all their IT staff. It recorded the window title of the application with focus on a regular schedule and kept this in a log somewhere. They said the results would only be used in aggregate, but that was treated with skepticism.

Also, the app does pop up with alerts every so often suggesting you take a yoga break so it is adding a lot of value. /Sarcasm

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Re:The Rise of Workplace Surveillance by PeachPlum on Monday November 06, 2017 @07:45AM (#15635048)
The solution is to provide terminals with only access to work tools.

No-one plays Solitaire on a supermarket checkout till

(cue someone finding a photo of someone playing Solitaire on a supermarket checkout till)

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Re:The Rise of Workplace Surveillance by albertgoeswoof on Monday November 06, 2017 @08:26AM (#15635228)
The solution is to hire people that care about their job, or at least people who are accountable for their output.

Difficult in a supermarket checkout scenario though.

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Re:The Rise of Workplace Surveillance by PeachPlum on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @03:09AM (#15641710)
Hiring people who care and keeping them in that mindset is hard, especially at scale.

32.9% of U.S. employees "engaged" in workplace in February (2015)

http://news.gallup.com/poll/181895/employee-engagement-reach...

and from a 2014 report

http://www.aon.com/attachments/human-capital-consulting/2014...

There are signs that the employee value proposition is breaking down. Perceptions of internal brand alignment have decreased 4 percentage points in the last two years. More employees are saying positive things about their organization and striving to go above and beyond. Engagement overall has increased, but the global element signifying intent to “Stay” with their companies has shown no change. Employees are engaging more, but only a little over half see a long-term path with their current company and fewer see a compelling value proposition to keep their talents with the current company.

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Re:The Rise of Workplace Surveillance by pjc50 on Monday November 06, 2017 @09:39AM (#15635724)
How about a chip and pin terminal playing Tetris? https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2006/12/24/chip-pin-term...
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Re:The Rise of Workplace Surveillance by PeachPlum on Monday November 06, 2017 @04:14PM (#15639070)
Thank you for fulfilling my prophecy
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Re:The Rise of Workplace Surveillance by gadders on Monday November 06, 2017 @08:54AM (#15635383)
By IT Staff, I mean (for example) developers writing risk management and trading systems, as well as support and infrastructure staff.
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