Forget punching clocks. Now it’s browser tabs, keyboard activity, eye movement. The software watching you? It’s called “productivity monitoring.”
Cute euphemism.
Let’s call it what it is: corporate #bossware
https://untraceabledigitaldissident.com/youre-being-watched-at-work/
Dystopian core
Cypherboss
Precrime is what that really is. No shot.
Benefit off my job is me knowing what spyware is being pushed as I automate everything. To my knowledge its only our remote control software that tracks whats installed on the machine. It can do much more like uninvited screen takeovers file stealing, remote shell, etc. But often those kind of RMM tools have a privacy mode. Ours they user can opt in to that mode, except thanks to my policy they are forcefully opted in and have to manually turn it off for X hours. Otherwise it asks them for consent before we can get remote control, visuals, etc.
Very standard practise and we dont use it to spy in our department. We just use it to monitor nothing bad gets put on the machine, push updates, check if your disk is almost full so you dont get stuck, etc. Basically typical sysadmin stuff.
Its like this in every company I worked for.
