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If you work remotely, your bosses are probably using software to track you. Here's how they'll catch you slacking off.
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2023
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Can someone with knowledge please provide links, lists, specifics, because all the articles I find list like, 3 names: "Teramind, Time Doctor, StaffCop, and others." I want to know what "others" are, how many there are, etc etc. I am actually getting quite frustrated with these articles because they talk very generally about some nebulous hypothetical dystopian employee monitoring software, without actually just fucking telling me what the fuck to look for.
that's both unreasonable and not the right way to approach this. Your assumption is that if you knew the names of all possible processes that you could then be in a position to make better decisions. the problem is names are useless - it's trivial for software to run under different names, so believing names can help you somehow is a waste of time.
This is blatantly false. Name and fucking shame each variety of software. These cockroaches can't stand the light of public attention. The more people who know how to spot and identify malicious and suspicious boss-ware behavior, the better. It protects the user to know that the software exists; as they can better be prepared to combat and deter abuses of this software by unprofessional and shitty bosses.
No; it isn't going to be foolproof. That's not the intent here. The intent is for everyone to be able to name, shame, and identify when software that their employer is deploying is going to be behaving in a manner that blatantly violates their rights to privacy in a non-constructive way that threatens them.
https://www.techradar.com/best/best-employee-monitoring-software
This can go way beyond 'tracking' software. I used to write software that my company used in its core business activities. Almost everyone in the company used some portion of this software. The logging for that system included timestamps and user IDs the captured general high level activities. If we had a system issue we could ramp up the logging to much more granular levels. If mgmt asked we could query the logs and get a pretty good idea of how much or little you were using the system. That wasn't the main intent for the logging but it had been used for employee performance monitoring on more than one occasion.. In all my years of coding, every app I worked on had similar logging.
If you are on a work PC, assume your activity can be monitored and/or logged in some fashion.
Hmm OK so I'm going to have to be a bit sneakier than that then.
Just assume anything that work controls is monitored by your work. And act accordingly.
Don't install work software on personal devices. And you'll be fine
I had a weekend hard disk that I swapped with the work one. No idea if it kept me safe or not, but the OS wasn’t even the same.
Add Veriato to the list. A lot of this type of Spyware is sold as "insider risk" or "behavior analytics" software.
I, unfortunately, was forced at my last job to implement and maintain this program.
Any company that does this to it's employees is dooming itself to failure anyways. A complete lack of trust makes for a very hostile working environment; and it will generally drive employees away anyways.
I mean the article is on "Business Insider"...