[ShadowAce]

[Jeff Chandler]

In order to relieve road congestion and reduce air pollution, every government worker who is able to telecommute should be required to.

Once that is accomplished, we can outsource their jobs to the Philippines.

[bk1000]

If the work is getting done, why monitor?

[brownsfan]

Yes.

[pierrem15]

What if it’s BYOD? If they secretly install monitoring software, I would recommend criminal prosecution.

[Brian Griffin]

Hi Bob:

Thanks for working 8 hours and 54 minutes yesterday....

[Harpotoo]

Had a remote meeting today and always keep the camera turned off. Tape across it so no errors. Audio of course is on and mute button at the ready:-)

[Political Junkie Too]

If it's the company's computer, then let them count keystrokes and network traffic.

If they want to watch you on camera, then charge them for office rent.

-PJ

[Right Brother]

The Omicron surge

Ooooooooooooo.....scary!

[webheart]

If they don’t tolerate being monitored they will have to tolerate being replaced.

[EVO X]

A few thoughts on this. If one is employed as an exempt from overtime employee, having spyware on the company laptop should be an outrage. If an hourly worker is able to work from home, they are miss classified.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

But will workers agree to allow their employer to monitor their home office activities?

Short answer: no.

Demand for qualified tech workers far outpaces supply. Employers are in no position to demand anything this intrusive.

[Joe Brower]

"Will remote tech workers tolerate being monitored?"

This one won't. Then again, I'm my own S-Corp for that as well as other reasons.

I told the CEO of my current contract back in 2009, no vidcams, no screen scrapers, no keystoke monitors, no IP monitoring, nada, or I quit. I meant it then and I mean it now.

If I were to leave at this time, with my 13 years of amassed knowledge of both tools and product domain, it would be very damaging to my client's operations. Not that would stop some of these 'brightest and the best' running some companies. But for me, that's a Rubicon for them to cross.

[colorado tanker]

[Larry Lucido]

Just say no. If you need my expertise, I’ll provide it. No cameras (except if and when I consent) and no keystrike monitors. You’ll have my output when it’s ready.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

If you have a company owned laptop tape over the Camera. They can monit or every keystroke, screen and app you run. wrote an app to keep my activity details and added a no sleep feature.

That’s hardly enough anymore .

[glorgau]

No.

[moovova]

“Will remote tech workers tolerate being monitored?”

Only the ones wearing masks.

And there aren’t many of those, right? Right?

[Wonder Warthog]

I be retired...no longer have to worry about it.