[eikenberry]

And those employers will suffer for it by getting sub-standard employee as the competent ones will find jobs at places that don't play big brother.

They could possibly get away with it by paying exceedingly well. But that would afford workarounds, like buying a work-only computer for the spyware to live on.

[adrianN]

Maybe if you restrict yourself to programmers. Most office workers probably don't understand the implications of surveillance software and I doubt that many of them would go through the extra effort of using a separate computer.