Snooping bosses
I have read an article called “snooping bosses”. The article describes two cases where the employers want to snoop on their employees. One case is about checking the web sites that the employees visit during work-time, and the other case is more advanced to check where the employee’s physical position is, so that they can’t lie about being home and sick when they are on a holiday.
The issue about if a boss or a company should be allowed to snoop and if so, how much they should be allowed to snoop is interesting. I don’t think that there is a one way to answer that question. It depends on what kind of a job it is and what the employer and the employed have agreed on. If the company fore an example have a policy witch limit the number of web sites that are okay fore the personal visit, and that this is clear for the employees, then should it be okay for the boss to actually check out that the workers don’t surf into inappropriate sites.
But sooner or later there must be a stop where it’s no longer acceptable to insult the personal integrity. Fore the most people I think that this line is the spare-time. What I do during my spare-time is my issue, as long as I’m not responsible fore the safety of the nation or something like that.
You have a point here ! I think - like you - that it is allright for an employer to do some controlling on his workers. Like checking up how much an employee are websurfing, or checking up which phonenumbers the worker has been calling at work-time. But when it comes to controlling an employees location in his spare-time, is has got off the track.
ReplyDeleteTo take help from gps-technology, goes against all human rights. It is really an insulting treatment to another person, and should not be allowed !
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ReplyDeleteI like your responce of the article. Just like you I don't thing it's easy to have a standard limit of controll to all the company. It's depend on what you working with.
ReplyDeleteI think its good that the boss have some controll but not aruond the clock.
You discuss the right not to be supervised during your spear time. And you also say that as long as it not interfear whit national safty. But if the employee develop a new line of product, is it right to supervise then?
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