Sometime in 2020 with pandemic closures, the company installed monitoring applications on laptops that randomly captures screenshots and reported meta information. Then came tracking the badge swipes at doors to ensure that all employees ordered to return to the office, did so and did so on time. IT can report how long you spend on Zoom calls, emails, spreadsheets, salesforce or if you’ve got blank space in your calendar. They’ve reportedly started tracking mobile phone location data for all employees- including once exempt sales and admin staff. If you have a company phone, and don’t live in Cali, you are now most likely in the surveillance crosshairs. Enjoy eating lunch or leaving at 5:01 pm knowing that your location is being watched. What’s next a loyalty test?
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As a customer, perhaps Canon needs to monitor IT's dysfunctional performance on solving glitches rather than people's laptops in Melville. To the CEO: you're losing business and gaining ill-will from customers like me. Either fix it or I will take my business elsewhere! The ball is in your court. Get to it, chop, chop.
What a waste of time, money and resources. No wonder Canon didn't achieve profit targets. As the saying goes, play stupid games, you win stupid prizes. Wasting money is acceptable to Sammy. And, BTW, Sammy, KMA.
And yet there are still the su-k ups that sit there in office doing nothing all day but texting and making personal calls. And nothing happens to them. Ever.
It's the same thing is every level of corporate America. They need to believe they're dominating our lives, production and level of success (apparently) aren't enough. The rich folks need to know their peasants are obeying...