Woman fired after company uses keystroke tech to see how she's working from home
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Question 2: why does this news story need to plaster her face all over the article multiple times?
2. I don’t like the privacy implications. However it sounds like her litigation was baseless so at least making her visible helps future employers avoid her and risk of litigation.
Imagine saying something controversial on social media and having that plastered all over the web.
Unless your business is media or heavily linked to public perception, your controversial opinions should be irrelevant to work. This is different to a worker who doesn’t do their work and sues, that is _very_ relevant to future work.
Your premise is also incorrect: there are businesses that are happy to take on extra risk and will happily employ felons or other black sheep. Many people are willing to give a second chance, but they should be aware that they are giving a second chance.
That is, unfortunately (or fortunately if you're that kind of person), not how things work for a large amount of jobs. If you have that scarlet letter, you're shut out of a lot of positions, even when that history _shouldn't_ matter.
Instead of taking responsibility for it, she played the victim card and filed a lawsuit in bad faith. She does not belong in any workplace.
To be employed by them, for so long, means that she was likely productive for most of her time there (then slacked off at some point) and/or how employees are managed and evaluated at that company is completely dysfunctional.
But the privacy implications should not be ignored, and it appears the company and media organizations seek to do further damage and harm, beyond what was required to win the case.
The ability of people to change or their right to seek future employment elsewhere, can't be ignored or purposely inhibited without creating more legal and litigation issues.
* It's barely a 'news' publication, it's the UK LadBible social media network of schlock.
* Not her face unless there's some heavy heavy filters doing the lifting. See:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/exclusive/article-12387247/...
for a possible 'correct' image.
In general news organisations (Daily Mail, et al) have been doing a poor job sourcing images for minor stories, they frequently assign interns to scour social media for the name and often come up with right name wrong person photos.
See the Daily Mail piece for a realistic image of a person more likely to be who the story is about.
The keylogger isn't strictly necessary. My trade secret: look at authentication counts.
Here in the US, company policy mandates that the employee lock the screen when away from desk and we have timeouts to enforce it (for PCI). Labor law requires 3-4 breaks per shift.
So when arriving at their desk and returning from each break, all employees should have an absolute minimum of 3-4 authentications logged per shift.
Realistically it's going to be way more than that because people get up and do stuff all the time (which is fine, and desirable, since it at least suggests activity), but if someone has less than the absolute minimum number of logins they'd accrue if they were physically chained to their desk, they're either not actually at their desk, they're violating labor law by not taking breaks (while also somehow underperforming), or they installed a mouse jiggler (which I'd then look for and get them for "installing software/hardware to obfuscate evidence of job abandonment").
This is all trivial to do with Defender KQL or whatever SIEM you have. No spyware necessary.
lots of ways to track this without being invasive, and plenty of endpoint security and business analytics already do.
to inspire feelings based on the person's face instead of the actual happening. the face is irrelevant to the story.
As long as companies don’t use it as some kind of metric then I don’t see an issue. I don’t assume privacy in the office, so why should my work be private?
Companies that need keyloggers, often have dysfunctional management and processes to evaluate employees, so need to resort to such desperate measures.
Anyone who thinks this is reasonable can only be stuck in an SV bubble like people who push the gig economy knowing they’ll only ever benefit from it, not be subject to it.
Regardless, measuring keystrokes sounds as dumb as lines of code.
[1] https://www.fwc.gov.au/job-loss-or-dismissal/unfair-dismissa...
This comment alone would take you the entire morning.
No logging necessary, just some face to face time (which you could also do over zoom, btw).
If the employees performance stays bad despite roadblocks being handled, then it isn't really important whether or not it's bad because they aren't typing enough.
Of course this requires management to actually do their job, and unlike the other employees their metrics don't seem to include them actually doing any work.
Nah, she wasn't fired due to keystroke "tech". She was fired due to performance issues that she attributes to mental health problems. Burnout is the first thing that comes to mind that might prevent people from performing as well as they should.
First except I found https://www.deaneckles.com/blog/700_docsend_in_snow_crash/
When every single link on the page leads to another page on the same base domain, you know you are dealing with a site that pedals in nothing but clickbait.
Move along, nothing to see here.
Keylogging on employee workstations is a Bad Thing, but some people really take the piss - and risk ruining it for the rest of us. Hopefully this sort of event continues to be the exception to the rule.