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Bossware, workplace spyware or tattleware is another one of those trends we’ve seen emerge in recent years.
We share background to a Canadian case in January where an employee was ordered to pay a fine for time theft that was picked up through monitoring software.
https://decisions.civilresolutionbc.ca/crt/crtd/en/item/523029/index.do
While there are elements of monitoring that can be helpful when it comes to individual productivity, we express our concern about the evasiveness of this sort of technology and how it can be abused by companies.
Our view is that the bigger challenge is around measuring productivity and we point to the research from Microsoft report and their term productivity paranoia (see below), but we do challenge ourselves to explore any benefits it can provide. Spoiler alert … there aren’t many and we’re fans of macromanagement!
Here is a link to the Microsoft report on Productivity Paranoia
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/work-trend-index/hybrid-work-is-just-work
And to the idea of micromanagement
https://www.fastcompany.com/90832818/how-to-be-a-macromanager-and-why-you-need-to
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