Bosses started spying on remote workers. Now they're fighting back
4 years, 4 months ago

Bosses started spying on remote workers. Now they're fighting back

Wired  

Getty Images / WIRED In 2017, David* found something peculiar mounted under his desk in Barclays’ London headquarters. “My colleagues weren’t really concerned: it was the trading floor; people were generally quite busy,” he recalls. “I don’t think they were really aware of the implications, and how much of an overreach it was by management.” Barclays claimed to have introduced the sensors to help assess office space usage, not workers’ productivity. Today, they’re invisible: silently ticking along unnoticed in the background, installed on work computers, living in people’s homes.

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Union: Over a half million remote workers "spied on" by employers
3 years, 8 months ago

Union: Over a half million remote workers "spied on" by employers

NL Times  

An estimated 13% of remote workers are experiencing their employer using software to monitor their behavior during working hours, labor union CNV said. In reality, the number is probably even higher because not everyone is aware of software being used”, CNV chair Piet Fortuin said. Simultaneously, there has been a large increasing in interest among Dutch companies for monitoring software …

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