Think WFH means your boss isn’t watching you? Think again

Summary

This article by John Naughton, writing for The Guardian, makes the following points:

• Managers who regarded working-from-home (WFH) as some kind of work-avoidance scam, realised that digital technology could enable them to keep an eye on their remote subordinates.
• Many small tech firms are now making ‘bossware’—software that enables employers to keep a close eye on staff who are working from home.
• Employers seeking intrusive surveillance of their WFH employees have a wide range of tools to choose from.
• The software is designed to monitor, classify and exploit employees in ways the programmers and their corporate bosses would never tolerate, themselves.

References

Recent Runway Posts related to this topic:

• Is Your Company Anti-WFH? This May Be Why | The Runway (airforce.gov.au)

References from the Web:

• OCT 2020 The New Normal: When work-from-home means the boss is watching—Computer World  
• JUN 2020  Here’s how employers are using tech tools to keep a close watch on their remote workers—CNBC  
• SEP 2021 The Future Of Hybrid And Remote Work Will Increase Orwellian Big-Brother ‘Tattleware’ Spyware For Surveilling Workers—Forbes  

Source Information:

• Article Source: The Guardian
• Media Check: The Guardian - Media Bias Fact Check (mediabiasfactcheck.com)
• LEARNING OUTCOMES—RUNWAY | The Runway (airforce.gov.au)