Tracking Sales Reps 24/7

A sales executive was fired for deleting an app on her cell phone.  The details from the Fox News story: A sales executive was fired after she deleted an app on her phone that tracked her every move, allowing her employer to know where she was 24/7. It was only a matter of time until this type of issue surfaced.  My personal take is that tracking her 24/7 is an incredible invasion of privacy and her actions were the same ones I would have chosen in that situation.  However, let me throw this at you from the former Judge quoted in the article: Judge Andrew Napolitano said that in the… Read More

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Corporate Spying At Boeing

I suspect Boeing will be in damage control mode on this Seattle Post-Intelligencer article: One such team, dubbed “enterprise” investigators, has permission to read the private e-mails of employees, follow them and collect video footage or photos of them. Investigators can also secretly watch employee computer screens in real time and reproduce every keystroke a worker makes, the Seattle P-I has learned. I have read much about how Gen Y craves transparency in all things.  I can’t imagine the impact an article like this could have on their recruiting efforts.  Whether the story is true or not, the impact will still be felt. Recently, a Boeing investigator told a Puget… Read More

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