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If you work remotely, your bosses are probably using software to track you. Here's how they'll catch you slacking off.
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2023
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What dystopia do you guys live in? I've worked for some small companies and some corporates and neither did this shit, that really wouldn't fly here.
It's illegal in the EU, so probably not there.
That might be it. The more I learn the happier I am I live in EU.
As a Brit who appreciated what the EU did for us: this makes me sad 😢
Well, here's to hoping that you'll join us one day again :)
This is from someone who doesn’t keep up at all: Does the UK plan on it? Are there at least people proposing rejoining?
Nothing serious, but the general consensus online is that it would be the smart thing to do. Note the keyword online. Given that I frequented Reddit and now Lemmy, there's obviously a bias.
UK people were kinda drunk on their former glory and didn't quite notice that basically everyone worth considering (US, EU, China) has the upper hand when dealing with them alone. Realistically speaking, they'll have to join EU (or its successor) eventually if they want to stay relevant. We might be talking 10 years, 20 years, 50 or even 100. If I personally had to guess, it's gonna be 20 to 40 years.
Edit: Forgot to mention that UK had a lot of exceptions because they joined quite early where they had a lot more political strength over the union. When they join, they'll have to do it by the same rules as everyone else without exceptions which many of them are salty about (meaning those who are generally pro-rejoin but not under the same rules as other countries).
It's legal to spy on your employees in USA?
I'm beginning to think all their tinfoil conspiracy theories aren't completely baseless..
Why would it be tinfoil? The us culture is very much about hardcore capitalism. They don't even have unions or proper vacations.
We have unions lmao what?!
Well, our ~800 people company has unions too. But they don't do sh#t for people. And I mean real sh#t. Except for once a year they have a meeting with free sandwiches they eat and then go home. Another year of unions well done... apparently by them.
But my friends working in big technical/industrial corp say their unions are quite strong and they at least care for employees a bit.
So yeah, there're unions to this day, but their meaning is not met everywhere.
Not true on either count. We just don't have enough unions and only some of us have good vacation.
Lol ever heard of NSA? Employees are nothing
The NSA are not allowed to spy on their own citizens. That's why they use data of friendly countries' agencies.
And yet it’s been proven they’ve been doing it anyway with no real changes or outcry afterwards
"Just bycatch we accidentally got while investigating stuff in Microsoft & Facebook".
It seems like they collect the data from big tech and not directly from the users.
Mfw you think mass surveillance is so scary
Indeed it is. There are limits, but not many.
Idk but it's a work computer I suppose
In that case I think it's mostly fine
Kinda I guess.
Installing software to log and remotely access a computer is not illegal. Remember that the computer isn't yours and that you signed a document permitting it.
Not restricting access and using it maliciously might be illegal though. Idk.
Edit: found this: https://www.worktime.com/12-most-asked-questions-on-eu-employee-monitoring-laws