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by wickerman 2231 days ago
I think it's time to start naming and shaming these companies. This doesn't increase productivity. It's disgusting. You don't own people's lives for 8 hours a day; you pay them to help you achieve goals for the company.

It baffles me how the US has trouble not understanding that paying for someone's time does not make them your slave.
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samizdis 2231 days ago
It's not just the US. We've had episodes of this sort of thing in the UK, albeit with clumsier tech, for years. Here's a tale from 2016 [1] about motion sensors under journalists' desks (management later did a reverse ferret, aka volte-face [Edited to add the aka]):

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jan/11/daily-telegrap...

BTW - "Reverse ferret" is a British media thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_ferret

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aSplash0fDerp 2231 days ago
I had to laugh a little about your second paragraph. I grew up in the deep south and have actually seen caucasion slaves (they had no freedom or agency in their life), and being a military brat, their reality was almost too funny to bear. If someone was raised in slavery, they have no concept of 1st world perks.

If you were to name/shame them, how would you brand the companies? (ie. Would you accuse them of bringing communist values to America or using 3rd world surveillance protocols in the 1st world)

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