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The creepy AI-driven surveillance that may be infiltrating your workplace (www.businessinsider.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)

most importantly, surveillance of your employees should be illegal altogether. it already is in germany. (well kind of, you can't use surveillance footage as evidence to fire someone)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Interesting that video isn't allowed. Like, someone walks into a server room and literally steals servers in plain view. (This actually happened where I worked... We didn't have cameras so I guess you can still catch a person doing that kind of thing)

That said, I would love to see workplace surveillance outlawed. Particularly constant productivity monitoring.

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If you do the work on time, what's the problem? If I happen to have a day where I am not feeling it and play solitaire for 8 hours, yet I deliver everything expected on time of good quality... Who cares?

That level of surveillance is demeaning, overbearing, and demoralizing.

Companies have way too goddamn much power in the US. Like, we have all this freedom^1 outside of work but at work it's a fucking fiefdom run by autocratic pricks and their middle management minions.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

you can still use the video footage as evidence for theft. and then you can fire the person based on that. but firing a person because they don't look busy enough isn't allowed.

and i absolutely agree that workplace surveillance is a dick move. there's supposed to be a certain level of trust that your employee is going to do the work on time.