Monday, October 25, 2004

Does Your Cubicle Have Eyes and Ears?
This story from Dawn Kawamoto at News.com starts out this way: "As more and more companies install monitoring software to track employee activities--threatening to turn cubicles into no-privacy zones--businesses that offer workplace surveillance tools are enjoying a boomlet."

Without getting into the piece itself (it's an old theme, one that's dragged up from time to time no matter what, but feel free to go read it), there are two things that bother me about this one sentence. A cubicle at your company is not a privacy zone under any stretch of the imagination or law, in the first place. So it's impossible for a company to change it into a no-privacy zone. That's just inaccurate reporting.

After that, why should it even be an issue that you're doing personal stuff at work --where you're being paid to do work there? I think this is tied into the whole "moral relativism" issue that haunts music downloads. Of course, some of the stuff they're using to keep an eye (and ear) on you is pretty cool.

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