Invasive, secretive “bossware” tracking workers

Re:Invasive, secretive “bossware” tracking workers by skylarchunk on Thursday July 02, 2020 @09:41PM (#23720256)

Perhaps the ethical qualms could be settled if the tracing of workers were handled by a neutral third party. Being tracked by parties you are affiliated with opens a whole can of worms.

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Re:Invasive, secretive “bossware” tracking workers by Sophistifunk on Thursday July 02, 2020 @10:28PM (#23720510)

No, the harm is inherent in the surveillance.

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Re:Invasive, secretive “bossware” tracking workers by jodrellblank on Thursday July 02, 2020 @10:48PM (#23720601)

How can they be a neutral third party when they're paid by, and report to, the employers and not the employees? Their incentive would be to find problems, because that makes their service look worthwhile.

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Re:Invasive, secretive “bossware” tracking workers by Shared404 on Friday July 03, 2020 @12:46AM (#23721082)

I'm going to play devils advocate here...

They could make the data for all levels of the organization public within the organization. Doing this would allow for time tracking to be had for the scared middle management, but also give any employees the chance to view any unfair treatment.

Of course this would never happen, but honestly, I would probably be ok with it.

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Re:Invasive, secretive “bossware” tracking workers by gentleman11 on Thursday July 02, 2020 @10:29PM (#23720514)

That third party will be incentivized to monetize the data they collect after “anonymizing” it

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