Curious to know how much faith they have in us.
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Phones are monitored as well. Team of compliance investigators are contacting sales reps looking for reasons to terminate them. While on the Teams calls, reps are being told to connect their phones to a USB so that everything can be viewed. If the rep refuses, they are fired for non-compliance. If they comply, the reps are still being fired because we all have something, work related or personal, on our company phones that will put us in the non-compliance status. So delete your photos, texts, etc immediately. They already have all of your emails, so no reason to delete those.
100% monitored and key people via UEBA
They may also record video and sound - better not bring your corporate laptop or phone into the bathroom when #2 calls! Who knows what IT and HR is hearing while you "take care of business."
Yes. All communications are logged/saved. If you want to do something that might get you in trouble….use a personal device. Don’t be stupid.
Lol! I'd like to see the 3M IT clowns try to monitor anything on my network that isn't originating from my work PC. You just gave me a good laugh today, thanks!
I did have an exchange with my manager one time over the 3m web browser censorship, where he admitted he got a report of my attempts to reach "banned" websites.
In particular this was a firearms related topic. I was selling a 3m product to a major manufacturer and was looking into alteritive companies to approach but the 3m system stopped me from going onto any of thier webpages, or related forums pages.
I also noticed that I could not access my local g-n stores webpage (via clicking on links in a promotion email) but I could shop g-ns via a mega site like bass pro or cabelas.
Now as a 2A advocate and a person looking to sell 3m products into this industry I did bring up this censor ship to my manager. While it was clear my intention was good, he did not think it would be able to change the 3m policy and advised I just use personal devices to do my research. More on the topic of this thread, it was during this exchange it slipped that he got an IT report of my multiple attempts to enter websites listed as "we-pons or bo--s". A year or so later I did have a day where I did run into that wall again and 2-3 warning pages pop up. Since I had a new manager I mentioned it to her as a heads up, she laughed and said she has never seen a report of web usage.
So I belive those reports do make it to managers but it sounded like it takes more then a few "accidental" clicks on links, rather a series of attempts that warrent a review in order for the report to be sent to managers.
While I am all for privacy and freedom, they are 3m resources, 3m has liability for what you do with them, plus they are not paying you to be on Facebook, g-n shopping, or po-nhub. Go to bestbuy and buy a cheap laptop or tablet and use then instead.
More concering than laptops, I know 3M has the ability to track cell phone locations. My managers always fought the use of that data, but they showed a small team of sales reps that the ability existed so don't spent the day at the beach and say you were visiting customers. I stopped carring my work phone outside work hours from that meeting on.
As AI advances these this monitoring efforts will become more automated and effective so always assume big 3M, big tech, and big goverment is watching.
3M = Corruption
All personal activity on your network and your PC/cell.
I never said the reason would be a good one, I just said they won't do it without a reason.
I agree those tools can be used that way, my point is that 3M isn't doing it. 3M's capability simply isn't sophisticated enough to even know what to do with that data.
Let me put it another way:
A lot of 3M equipment is older than the staff that operates it and you think 3M IT is running AI-based staff tracking metrics?
- The same 3M IT that last I checked was still running COMS and IOMS instances despite BT rollout?
- The same 3M IT that seemingly can't pull product sales data more than 3 years old?
- The same 3M IT that flat-out broke multiple countries at go-live?
- The same 3M IT that, to this day, cannot properly cost whole classes of order types? (I could go on for a quite a while here, so I'll stop there).
I was a senior leader at 3M for many years. Never in all that time did I even get a hint of a report being run on a person's computer activity unless I specifically requested the data be pulled and had the HR manager concur with the request.
“Will 3M go looking through those records to bust someone without reason: No.”
The above statement is 100 percent naïveté.
Monitoring tools including Teramind, InterGuard, ActivTrak, Hubstaff and TimeCamp gather data from your keyboard and mouse to see when you are “active” and when you’ve stopped clicking around.
Members of your household aren’t necessarily immune to employee monitoring, even though they don’t work at your company. Teramind can collect data from the microphone and speakers on your computer, which could record ambient noise from your home office.
Some employers even use this data to make personnel decisions — like letting people go — and, while that might not be a good idea, they’re in their rights to do so. This summer a company said it used AI analytics to justify the layoff of 150 “unengaged” employees.
You can say no to the job, but you probably can’t say no to data collection.
Love many, trust few, and always paddle your own canoe: This distinctly American proverb of self-reliance was first popularized in the 1850s, and it's still a good way to be. Be kind, but not naïve, and take responsibility for yourself.
Will 3M go looking through those monitoring records to bust someone without reason?
If your leader or HR does not like you, absolutely yes. Every word and sentence will be reviewed until they find something, anything really. Honesty, integrity and ethics is not a strong suit for 3M.
I got dismissed by 3M went through a full global legal and hr investigation, they presented me with emails, texts and teams chats that spanned around a 1 year timeframe.
I did take 3m to court for un lawful dismissal and won after I was dismissed though which was nice as the whole case was a set up.
Short answers:
Does 3M have o keep records of most things that happen on 3M computers: Yes.
Will 3M go looking through those records to bust someone without reason: No.
Longer answer:
3M computers are monitored, have been for a long, long time. However 3M does not literally have the resources to keep watch on everything that goes on with 3M computers. However, if there is a reason to go through a person's, or computer's, activities 3M can definitely do it.
Your browser is monitored by your organization.
Of course 3M monitors everything, including laptops.
The lawyers read all my chats…
About 9 months ago i noticed that snow application. There is a folder that it creates. Then every time you open a web page an encrypted file appears in that folder. When it gets up to 4 to 6 files they start getting moved off of the computer to the cloud.
If you don’t think you are being monitored, ask Ed Snowden.
Tireman reads this site. Wonder if he accesses it on his 3M devices?
What do you actually mean by monitored? Are there tools to block certain sites, yes. However, if you think 3M IT Security is rationalizing data at the individual level, you are paranoid. They do not give a rat's a@@ is you talk negatively about 3M leadership on this site. Do you really think 3M is spending cash on watching who says what?
It is 3M equipment and network. 3M policy is clear, your activity on 3M assets can and will be monitored. Use your home PC or personal iphone when on this site, then you can speak and read freely. This is a great site where you can find out what is really happening.
Open any browser. Check your extensions. Notice: Snow Web Application monitoring. Maybe on a non work computer google what it does.
All devices are monitored including Teams chats and
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