Spy on Employees
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The Many Ways Bosses Spy on Employees |
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Jennifer Vogel | |||
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If you're reading this at work, your boss may be reading right along with
you. That's right, check up in that corner. Is that a camera? Are you sure?
And don't forget about the computer network that allows your boss to read
any file on your hard drive at any time and count your keystrokes per hour.
He or she may even be
tracking the websites you visit. People have been fired you know, for
looking at the wrong websites while at work. Should you decide to discuss
this article with your friends or co-workers over the phone system or
through e-mail, be careful what you say. The boss is there too.
You may be wondering, how can my boss get away with this? Don't I have rights? The short answer is, no, not really. While the Constitution dictates that police and other government agents almost always need a warrant to search a home or listen in on a phone conversation, the workplace is different. It's the domain of bosses and managers. They literally own the office, the phone, the computer, and, in a sense, you the employee. And they can do just about anything they want as long as it's not done in a discriminatory manner. Working in today's offices is a little like living during the Red Scare of the '50s, when slogans like "Don't tell your neighbor anything you wouldn't tell Stalin" were popular. Except that in your office, the paranoia is justified. It's hard to point to any one thing that has led us to this era of spying, but it's partly due to a changed relationship between worker and boss. All through the '50s, '60s, and '70s, employers needed us. And they were willing to pay -- wages were on the rise, reaching an all-time high in real dollars in 1973. Most families could live on one 40-hour-a-week income. |
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