Bosses turn to ‘tattleware’ to keep tabs on employees working from home

Re:Bosses turn to ‘tattleware’ to keep tabs on employees wor... by ilaksh on Sunday September 05, 2021 @02:02PM (#28426295)

Great article. I did stop reading when I got to the part about how there wasn't a lot of pushback.

Most employees are dependant upon that job to maintain their income. And losing that income creates a big problem.

So there is a strong incentive to accept most things the employer wants to avoid being fired. Including spyware or tattleware or whatever.

Employees know that even though they hate being spied on, raising it as a serious issue risks losing their job. Or, they have heard other employees try and fail to get anywhere against a mandatory policy.

So if it seems to someone like there isn't a lot of pushback, that is a misleading statistic they have gathered.

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Re:Bosses turn to ‘tattleware’ to keep tabs on employees wor... by hypothesis on Sunday September 05, 2021 @04:50PM (#28427654)

Somewhere at the end they even added a “contrarian” opinion which basically said that people like being surveilled and more productive when under surveillance…

*head-desk*

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Re:Bosses turn to ‘tattleware’ to keep tabs on employees wor... by co2benzoate on Sunday September 05, 2021 @11:05PM (#28429829)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but The Guardian is run by the upper class. It would be strange to assume they speak for other classes.

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