Property News · January 14, 2016

Is your boss spying on you? – take our test


Employees at the Daily Telegraph this week were shocked to discover heat and movement sensors under their desks. Meanwhile a new ruling in Europe allows companies to monitor their staff’s instant messages. Are you being watched? Arriving at work on Monday morning, staff at the Daily Telegraph were surprised to find that strange black boxes had been installed beneath their desks. A quick Google revealed that each device, which was marked with the word OccupEye, would detect heat and movement generated by a person’s legs – or the absence of it. “If a space is used, your OccupEye sensors will record it and you are guaranteed to know about it,” the maker’s website said. Luckily, some Telegraph staff knew how to handle the situation, and promptly gave the story to Buzzfeed. The OccupEye boxes were to help “make our floors in the building as energy efficient as possible,” the Telegraph protested, before removing them all hours later.But don’t be too reassured. There are countless ways for a curious employer to keep an eye on staff, many of them subtler than a black box. The European Court of Human Rights has even ruled that a Romanian engineer’s messages to his fiancee could legally be read by his employer, since he sent them using a company phone during work time. So how do you know if your boss is spying on you? Answer these questions: Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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