Commentary: Bosses use 'Big Brother' office spyware to monitor employees, but could it backfire?

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In the space of seven days this month, the chief executive of one global company worked for more than 57 hours, or an average of eight hours a day.

He slept for almost exactly the same number of hours. Family and friends got a more meagre 17 hours of his time and he devoted an even more measly three hours to relaxing and having fun.

These Big Brotherish apps can monitor the websites workers visit and the programs they use to tally up how much time is spent on, say, Twitter vs Excel — even if people are working at home, as many more are thanks to Covid. The accountant had logged just over 50 hours of work that her employer said did not appear to have been spent on “work-related tasks”.

Also, she would have had to upload the work she did offline into the company’s computer system, and TimeCamp didn’t show she had done that either. But the news had also amplified concern about software that Mr Rudnicki insisted was not always used in the sinister way widely imagined.Also, most of his customers only used the software to monitor work done on specific projects so they could show their clients how many hours the jobs had taken.

 

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