![]() ![]() Turns out WFH employees are working an extra 1-2 hours per day. Then they wanted us to track lock/unlock events - difficult but we did it. All of their metrics pointed to employees being more productive at home - including the most important one - sales numbers. Everything they do is tracked to try to determine behaviors of successful employees. Pre-covid we had many tracking systems in place. ![]() We have proven time and time again that nomatter what they're looking at, ALL of our employees who choose to work from home are significantly more productive. It's important to note that I work for a sales company. However, they only come into the office once a week. They don't understand that their employees could be productive - or more productive while working from home. Unfortunately, we're always fighting boomer management from this. I am pretty anti-monitoring WFH employees. BUT that doesn't mean some other company wouldn't care until caught. A customer who violates that violates our contract with them. In fact, we have various rules we have to follow depending on things like wiretapping laws and expectation of privacy. To monitor a worker at their computer and track their activity would be trivial with the same types of things we can track. "Building A has someone sitting motionless in a hallway for the last 4 minutes at 2:35am, please dispatch." But they can send someone to investigate. This way, a security company can monitor several residential units, and study the ins and outs of people, plus traffic patterns, without having a person present. Data is collected on the cloud, and kept for XXX days (depending on government compliance for such matters). The computer determines what looks strange, and alerts you, and you study the material. ![]() We use a form of AI, for security reasons like "when did this face enter the building, where did they go, who did they talk to?" Or "is this a car that is supposed to be in our parking lot, or is it an unknown?" It's mainly for site security and tracking, and sends alerts when a pattern seems odd, like "man not wearing helmet in area where helmets are required, no badge identification on file, follows closely when people enter and exit doors." So that security can go find the guy (or perhaps, for forensic purposes). I work for a company that tracks things like office traffic patterns, employee arrivals, and movement. The most obvious is when MS Teams activity reports started being a thing. I have to say, monitoring people for certain metrics is not as hard as "not everyone can watch and what about storage?" AI has made some HUGE strides in this. "They can tell if you have taken drugs with hair follicles up to XXX months!" may be true, but those are EXPENSIVE and are done for medical monitoring, and rarely for employment reasons. Often they are idle threats to make you quit so they don't have to deal with you. The structured drug tests (like condition of hire, or after an accident) are sometimes mandatory for compliance reasons, but "surprise! Did you dance with mary jane in the last 48?" are not. Most "random drug tests" are the same, they don't wanna pay for it unless they already are fishing for a reason to fire you.
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