[gav]

A previous employeer used Spector 360[1] on the majority of workstations. It would monitor everything including taking a screengrab every 5 seconds that you could then watch later.

They'd sit down employees and playback fast-forwarded video showing how much time was wasted on Facebook, personal email, shopping, etc. It's horribly invasive but it meant everyone was too scared to use work computers for personal things.

[1] http://www.spector360.com/

[hfsktr]

My old job used spector. I'm pretty sure everyone knew it but people would still be on FB playing games when you walked past. I believe IT was the last to get it and for about a week after they installed it on our machines it didn't work because Microsoft Essentials disabled it as malware.

I don't think they ever looked at it unless they wanted to fire someone and didn't want to pay unemployment and needed proof that they weren't doing their job.

[stoic]

This is pretty much why they had this at HG

[venomsnake]

It would be fun to see the people's productivity on that system. And who of the tech people will try to break it as a sport.

[nephesh]

I'm sure productivity skyrocketed /s

[tekacs]

Given the way that hovers over employees, I think there's a fair case in there to unofficially rename the product 'Spectre'. -.-'

shudder