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Re:Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics bui... by philipodonnell on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @11:03AM (#25199626)
Its a fair point, just a bit of a tough spot to put IT in, you know? If I buy a tool for my employees to use I want to know if they are using it to see if I am getting my money's worth. How would I do that if any attempt to measure usage, not matter how high level, is "spying"?
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Re:Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics bui... by thebean11 on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @01:52PM (#25201617)
I'm not sure anyone's claiming that any attempt to measure usage is spying. We're not talking about metrics like "the technology org created 452 documents and spent 9h47m reading them". We're talking about "Sally spent 4m52s looking at the doc Tom wrote".

Big difference.

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Re:Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics bui... by SulfurHexaFluri on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @05:40PM (#25203851)
The page linked just says stuff like "50% of users installed the mobile app"
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Re:Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics bui... by giantDinosaur on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @09:03PM (#25205201)
What about a culture where honesty is instilled and you can have frank discussions about what works, and what does not, directly with your employees?
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Re:Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics bui... by yodelshady on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @12:28PM (#25200652)
How could I establish if my employees, aka human beings with a brain and set of vocal chords or functional equivalent, use a given tool?

I know what you mean but if that's satire, it's excellent.

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Re:Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics bui... by syshum on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @09:59PM (#25205551)
Seems like you have a reverse purchasing problem...

i.e you are buying solutions in search of problems to solve, instead identifying a problems, then purchasing a solution

If you identified the problem first, then you would know of the solution fixed the problem because it would no longer be a problem

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Re:Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics bui... by Grimm665 on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @11:20AM (#25199819)
Maybe talk to them?
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Re:Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics bui... by raxxorrax on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @01:38PM (#25201459)
Seriously? Ask them if they use it and what they think about it.

I am so lucky that our IT actually values privacy very much. We have the spy tools but they have a real work ethic and therefore are far too lazy to look up private info.

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Re:Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics bui... by user9372829 on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @11:34AM (#25199980)
Please, ask him
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