Your employer is watching you! Almost
all major businesses now use monitoring
software to track workers' keystrokes
and web searches - with JP Morgan even
checking time spent writing emails when
they are IN the office
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Alex Hammer
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
9/7/2023 4:41:44 PM
Most businesses now use monitoring software to track workers' activity while on the clock, a new study has shown - with several such as JPMorgan tracking and penalizing employees even while in the office.
In a survey of some 1,000 business leaders across the country, ResumeBuilder.com found 96 percent of respondents working at organizations with either a remote or hybrid workforce said their firms used some form of employee-monitoring software.
Only 10 percent of those companies were doing so before the pandemic, the survey found - as firms like Google, Amazon, and Meta continue to commit to crackdowns for not spending sufficient time in their offices.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 9/7/2023 5:36:18 PM (No. 1551430)
I wonder what percentage of those being tracked like this are on Lucianne.com ? Or any other conservative site. I wonder if this info is also sold to marketing firms or other more sinister groups.
9 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
czechlist 9/7/2023 5:45:42 PM (No. 1551437)
nothing new. i was told by our IT dept back on the oughts that nothing needed to be transmitted for thrm to track keystrokes. But, at that time, it eas only done if someone was suspected of a security violation
4 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
Catherine 9/7/2023 5:46:26 PM (No. 1551438)
I don't remember what the conversation was about, but one night my son and I were talking about something. No reference made to anyone or anything else. The next day an advertisement showed up on the TV about this very thing. I remember I was shocked but it told me if we need to speak privately, go outside. We are being watched. And yes, I take into account every word I say because we know someone is listening and reading whatever we do.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 9/7/2023 6:05:41 PM (No. 1551450)
My friend was looking online for electric scooters on her phone. I started getting ads for electric scooters on my laptop. The ads came up whenever I went on the Fox News website.
4 people like this.
Software to track keystrokes has been around since the late 1980's or even earlier. Back then I took a job as data entry and yes every keystroke was recorded - even the errors and you fixing them. Companies have been watching employees forever. Before the internet, it was to see who was playing solitare or mines instead of working :)
5 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 9/7/2023 6:10:00 PM (No. 1551456)
Good. They're not paying people to screw off at their desks.
5 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Faithfully 9/7/2023 6:17:57 PM (No. 1551461)
Well... it used to be that God was watching you.
8 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 9/7/2023 6:33:41 PM (No. 1551475)
Hmimm. And in the federal bureaucracies it is pretty common, I am told, that many employees spend the entire day "playing" on the net, and not doing work. I wonder if any effort is made to control this?
Probably not.
8 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
Scout Finch 9/7/2023 6:45:15 PM (No. 1551484)
Millennials and Gen Z are more than happy to trade their privacy and liberty for convenience. My son and his wife both work from home. They love the convenience of no babysitter, no daycare, no gasoline to buy, no wear and tear on their cars, no work wardrobe, all worth relinquishing their freedoms. One of these days the companies they work for are going to put work-from-home to an end. But too late. They will have given up their liberties for nothing. And they both graduated from university.
4 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
padiva 9/7/2023 7:13:40 PM (No. 1551497)
My son works for a large internet company. When he was service tech, the company gave him a company phone that he could also use for personal use. He chose to carry 2 phones- company and personal.
Now, he works from home for the same company. I think he has a separate computer for personal use. That computer is in a different room.
4 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
nwcudagal 9/7/2023 7:39:23 PM (No. 1551506)
I also have had weird stuff show up on my computer after searching for something. I chalked it up to the fact that we are indeed being tracked. My daughter does all her gift shopping through Amazon; I send anything that is electronic back. Alexa or whoever is just too nosey.
5 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 9/7/2023 7:55:37 PM (No. 1551517)
As early as 25 years ago, a certain employer in our area was recording key strokes on everyone's computer. Big Brother and his uncles were doing it on the sly. Now they brag about it.
3 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
MMC 9/7/2023 8:16:55 PM (No. 1551528)
Having worked for state govt- I know everything I look at or do on computer is monitored.
I don’t ever look at anything but work items- period.
Not surprised private business is going same route..
3 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
anniebc 9/7/2023 8:26:50 PM (No. 1551537)
Most people access their work emails, Teams, work calls, etc. on their personal devices. You authenticate everything to your cell phone. It ain't hard. My company can track me all they want. Most of the time I'm cruising the web on my work device for them. You can't escape it.
2 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
stablemoney 9/7/2023 9:27:22 PM (No. 1551578)
They track you when you use your key card to enter the parking lot, when you enter the building, and the same when you leave. They also track the websites you visit. Except for government employees, who watch porno all day, and otherwise spend their time on personal business. Like Stryok and his girlfriend, who spent all their time on the job texting each other.
1 person likes this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
john56 9/7/2023 9:38:22 PM (No. 1551594)
Every day I sign on to my work computer, there's a message that it's company property and I should not expect privacy for my use. Okay. Your stuff, if I want a paycheck. I play by your rules.
4 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
DVC 9/7/2023 10:59:30 PM (No. 1551627)
The gov't contractor I worked for for thirty five years had an official policy.
"You have no expectation of privacy for anything that you do one government computers.
3 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
DanvilleBill 9/7/2023 11:14:55 PM (No. 1551636)
Smart LDotters know that space aliens are watching all of our key strokes.
In turn they send the results up to the C-suite inhumans.
Then they kill you and your pet hamsters.
2 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
Strike3 9/8/2023 2:07:34 AM (No. 1551682)
No surprise that they are finding that many workers are far less productive when working from home. For others, it is more productive without the distraction of office gossip, Monday morning sports discussions and the perpetually-ringing telephone.
1 person likes this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 9/8/2023 8:03:40 AM (No. 1551769)
Before I retired from my insurance agency, I knew several employees had gotten bossed with Facebook. It was new at the time and it was amusing to see them quickly close a screen when they saw me coming. They were good employees and stayed current with their work so I didn’t fuss at them much. I could have blocked FB but that seemed petty. I also had no intention of recording their keystrokes. I was too busy myself to monitor that sort of thing. We only had seven employees but I understand why bigger companies have to clamp down on it. Some years ago, the federal government learned that over half their employees were looking at porn most of the day. Knowing the type of employees in our government, I am sure it’s still going on.
2 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 9/8/2023 8:05:48 AM (No. 1551771)
That would be “obsessed “ with FB.
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