Quote from: knowngunman on Today at 01:38:39 PM

Quote from: Marvelockg on March 11, 2024, 03:34:44 PM

I understand the importance of monitoring workers to ascertain there level of productivity, and to improve workers attendance and also enhance Cyber security but then, the inability of most management to go about this ethically has been of great concern to me.

What's your view about this?

Your concerns are valid but I don't see anything worrisome here unless you have a hidden agenda against the company. Apart from restroom privacy, I don't know any other privacy you want to protect again in the place of work. Moreover, employees are much aware of this technological devices installed in the company and you have the right to terminate your contract or even reject the job offer in the first place if you are not comfortable with it. The level at which employees mismanage company's resources and properties called for this CCTV monitoring and I don't think anyone who's willing to work accordingly would have problem with being watched or monitored through CCTV cameras.

I know it'll limit employees freedom but it's not necessary not only for staffs surveillance but for security purposes and increase productivity to the core. It save company's time and cost in case of incident because the defaulter can be easily identified. At my current place of work, there is no CCTV cameras yet but the CEO is always on unexpected supervision to various departments from time to time. I may not be comfortable with it but I still support it because I have seen how impactful it is to the organization. Without monitoring, some employees are just a liability to the company.

Overall I agree with what you say, in a company it is very important to have supervision, the presence of CCTV can make this easier. A company certainly doesn't want its employees to spend their work time on useless things, CCTV is very useful for other purposes such as security. I think all employees have no problem with CCTV. In certain companies, CCTV is the main supporting device.

In my opinion, employee privacy will be maintained, company management will certainly get into trouble if they misuse employee personal information. When we decide to work for a company, it means we are ready to follow the company internal rules. Where we work, the presence of CCTV is more for security purposes such as crimes or theft of company goods.