Big brother is taking measures to micromanage and police your remote work.
For those who work from home frequently, new software is being quietly deployed to your laptops to track absolutely everything you do (and don't do) with it. Mouse-clicks, key-strokes, page scrolled, site visited, windows opened, you name it, and an AI based engine capable to determine if your attention is somewhere else (like if you are watching Netflix).
They may monitor, but I doubt anyone looks at the data. I mean, if the company were reading my IMs, I would have been fired years ago.
I was in a meeting several years ago when this was discussed with senior management. The following quarter, at least 6 employees (in all three regions) were terminated for sending company information to themselves or to third parties. These offenses are the simplest to track, yet they weren’t discovered until weeks or months after they happened. Surveillance software is only as good as the people who actually interpret the data. Maybe we should assign this task to the AI robot dog?
We don’t need software in Annandale, we have contractors that report back, you know what I mean……102/475
We just lost most wfh with dw bi-----g to HR about as--s in seats. #fakenews
This isn’t new and it isn’t “being deployed” just now. For at least 20 years, the company has monitored your e-mail and your internet use. Since RSI Guard was introduced, they’ve had the capability to monitor your every keystroke and mouse click. (I recommend that you use the uninstaller to remove its intrusive messages. With all of the other “policy” software that’s running in the background, do you really believe they don’t monitor your computer use?
This exists already. Ask your manager or click around in the ergo software
This is all theoretically possible. It just requires an empowered, savvy and motivated IT system to implement and manage.
So it is impossible here.
Who actually cares?
Global Security will love this
Hey I’m in a dark lab watching IG, 08801 , journeyman’s pay….tag you’re it….475/102
If you are actually working from home you have nothing to fear.
lol please install all you can to spy on employees. Most do nothing useful anyways. It is nice to have some control over them like Naatgeez.
Oh no; I wonder if the software will know when I am busy doing the wild monkey dance instead of busy working
Good
FLS here. I recently tried to get IT usage metrics of a hatted contractor.
Gave up after almost 3 months of the "ticket" getting pased from one imbicle to another...
Don’t worry, it’s being done by HCL. It just gives off the appearance of monitoring and doesn’t actually work.
I heard it will monitor ur--e samples too. Determine if you have championship level hydration.
@xft+1kMCzRMf So true! Even if anything does work, it will definitely take years to reach the final resolution (against the employee obviously)
OP, you worry too much. Let me explain. First, the software will be deployed and it'll fail. After one year of meetings and lots of PowerPoints they will figure it out. They will redeploy the working version next year. And, it will be managed from IT in India. Since those guys do not care, or are plain and simple incompetent, they won't even look at the reports the system will generate. After two years or so someone will discover that those employees don't care and force them to look at the data. One or two years later they'll find out that John Smith wasn't working enough. Another year will pass until HR gives John Smith's supervisor "the call" to take action (=NSI John Smith) to find out that John Smith resigned years ago. So, chill dude, nothing will happen. This is ExxonMobil not a perfectly working organization. Relax and keep collecting your paycheck. Nothing works at ExxonMobil.
You think they haven't been doing this for at least 3 years now?
Seems that if this were true, then Managers would have heard about it…nada so far. No way a couple of centralized people can review all this data as it comes in and take action. But I could see it being made available as something a supervisor could request if a performance problem was suspected. But not so many folks working from home anymore with flex policy reeling folks back in to seats. So I’d take this with a grain of salt for now.