{"id":1689,"date":"2008-08-05T07:58:12","date_gmt":"2008-08-05T12:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/08\/an-electronic-leash\/"},"modified":"2008-08-03T16:59:36","modified_gmt":"2008-08-03T21:59:36","slug":"an-electronic-leash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/08\/an-electronic-leash\/","title":{"rendered":"An Electronic Leash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You just knew this was going to happen &#8211; companies are using technology to monitor remote employees.\u00a0 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB121737022605394845.html?mod=\">The Wall Street Journal provides this article<\/a> that illustrates what approaches are used by employers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They&#8217;re taking photos of workers&#8217; computer screens at random, counting keystrokes and mouse clicks and snapping photos of them at their computers. They&#8217;re plying sophisticated technology to instantaneously detect anger, raised voices or children crying in the background on workers&#8217; home-office calls.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That seems quite invasive, but it appears telecommuters are generally willing to trade the invasiveness for the work-at-home option.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not certain I would be so eager to allow this type of monitoring into my computer.\u00a0 However, many companies do monitor employees in the office both electronically and directly (manager).<\/p>\n<p>Sales is a bit simpler in that it is easy to know how well a salesperson is performing based on their revenue production.\u00a0 Monitoring could be beneficial in ramping new hires, but success is still easily measured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You just knew this was going to happen &#8211; companies are using technology to monitor remote employees.\u00a0 The Wall Street Journal provides this article that illustrates what approaches are used by employers: They&#8217;re taking photos of workers&#8217; computer screens at random, counting keystrokes and mouse clicks and snapping photos of them at their computers. They&#8217;re plying sophisticated technology to instantaneously detect anger, raised voices or children crying in the background on workers&#8217; home-office calls. That seems quite invasive, but it appears telecommuters are generally willing to trade the invasiveness for the work-at-home option.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not certain I would be so eager to allow this type of monitoring into my computer.\u00a0&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/08\/an-electronic-leash\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,11,5,24],"tags":[921,920,67],"class_list":["post-1689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sales-management","category-team-management","category-trends","category-worklife-balance","tag-electronic-monitoring","tag-surveillence","tag-telecommuting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-rf","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1528,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/04\/big-brother-scanning-your-contacts\/","url_meta":{"origin":1689,"position":0},"title":"Big Brother Scanning Your Contacts","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"April 23, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This Wall Street Journal quick-hit article is shocking: Companies are rolling out software that allows them to mine their employees' emails and electronic address books for contact information, in a bid to make it easier to establish relationships with potential clients and others. 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