I have recently read an article called "snooping bosses" were managers use a software program which allows them to see what their employees do during work, where they are and also what they do on their sparetime. Of course they don´t have access to satellites to see what they actually do physically, but they can see what kind of websites they visit and so on.
I don´t think that this is right. Surveillance can be accepted in jobs where the employees have a high responsibility according to the security level, like jobs in a goverment, but not on regular workers.
It has been to much focus on the workers productivity and this is a way for managers to control what the workers do so gaps can be filled with more work and then increase the workers productivity. You can say that the workers should more be like machines with no failures. But the workers are´nt a machines they are human beings and i think they should have the right to be it. I think that it´s good that workers can relax by doing other things that is not connected to work, as long as they do their job. In fact it could also increase the workers productivity when they do other things in small amounts of time. Afterwards they are more relaxed and maybe provides better results.
What about the surveillance on the workers sparetime? I think that´s even more insulting. I can´t see why the managers have the interest to see what kind of websites they visit, like facebook for example, what´s the purpose of that?
Well the answer to that can be many things but i think the main reason is that they don´t want that their employees are involved in things that can hurt the company in some way.
But if the managers have trust to their workers then they shouldn´t be suspicous, if they are, then they should talk about it with the workers.
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I agree with what you are writing about higher productivity when the employees are allowed to do some private things at work, as long as it a reasonable amount of time. Everyone needs a short break sometimes and the employer can be motivated to work harder when they have the right to do that.
SvaraRaderaHello JP.
SvaraRaderaI agree with a lot of what you write, especially I like this quotation about the workers “they are human beings and I think they should have the right to be it”. But I don’t agree that it has been too much focus on the productivity, from an economic view there can never be too much focus on productivity, I mean it’s a important part of the GDP growth :-). Or am I wrong ?
/Lars
As the wrighter above said you can´t focus to much on productivity when you look at it from a economic aspect. but when you turn it around and se it from the persons point it´s not that funny. More stress and that leads to more sickness(don´t now what the english word for "sjukskrivningar" is).
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