Is Optum installing tracking apps or software on our work laptops to monitor what we are doing, for layoffs? Is there any trust in employees, and privacy???
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@5kki+1scvIZNa - Brown nosing doesn’t work if anonymous
I am not a production worker. So monitoring my mouse clicks and key strokes is pointless. However, ensuring that my software is performing and the network is able to balance the load is also monitored. If you want to know what me or my team is doing, look.at all the amazing work that come out of our area.
Of course, tracking work productivity is reasonable, and tracking to ensure employee is going on appropriate sites is reasonable. I don’t think tracking in the sense of analyzing an employees clicks and mouse movements in programs to see what they are doing every minute through the day is reasonable at all. That just means that they don’t trust their employees, which is a shame, creates a culture of distrust, and employees now have to be paranoid.
Why would you expect privacy on a company owned laptop. It’s literally not yours.
Most companies have tracking software that monitors all devices for all users. If you are worried about them tracking you…shame on you for the lack of work ethic.
IT person here:
They have something called “Sys Track” and it can log every single click and keystroke of a persons computer and MSID. So yes they have this type of stuff in place already and are using it period.
Well, if they are tracking/monitoring, then they laid off the wrong person and kept the wrong person employed between us; counterpart "works" hybrid and when works from the office, talks about being at the post office for hours mailing items to customers from their side hustle, or the shopping they do while "working", the two-hour lunches, the doctor's visits, the kid activities attended, I could go on and on...their struggle is about to get real with a rude awakening, having to put in a real day's work!!
Most times that is done to monitor production. Which in the long term could create a layoff if the company’s KPI’s are not being met in each department.
@huo+1scvIZNa You nailed it when you point out that subcontractors were most likely the way inside the FW.
As far as tracking, yeah your employment agreement surrendered your rights. So they are capturing it, but no one will be looking at it until they have some reason to. Easy peasy do work on the company laptop and then use your machine
You mean the REQUIRED Personal Device for TFA? Certainly if you allow those apps to use your location.
Are personal phones safe from device management?
Maybe they should worry more about the actual vector instead of focusing on yet another agent for on-shore employees. They still haven't admitted this started through Wipro.
100%-My laptop about a month ago popped up a download of Lakeside software Systask systems management agent install complete. It looks at over 10,000 data points. Basically, any info they want, they can get
Yes they have been and will continue to install tracking software. Used for layoffs, I doubt at any scale.
I would recommend if your home router has the ability to broadcast a guest network you run your laptop on that separate from the rest of the network. You network guys can set up a vLan.
I hope they are monitoring. I have never had to think of that. Probably because I have Integrity and put in an honest days work. No more, no less.
Reality check: yes. After the Optum cyberattack you can count on close monitoring especially with AI based tracking software that’s already in place and actually being beefed up, as it should be.
Typo idle time not idea.
When in doubt avoid using company issued laptop/desktop to do anything other than work assignment.heard they did or still do install remote monitoring software to track your idea time and more…
What privacy/trust when you are using company issued equipment ? Just use your own device.
Productivity is always tracked from devices. There are over 65% of the workforce WFH so there is a method to check employee production. Evaluations occur consistently through the work year and not strictly once annually.
Always assume your company provided laptop is being tracked/monitored in some way.