#surveillance

Humana is tracking everything you're doing using AI. AI scans your email, IMs, reads your calendar, WebEx meeting transcripts, etc. to assess how "efficient" and "productive" you are and make judgments about how necessary/valuable of an employee you are. This data is sent to senior management and the ghouls at McKinsey to inform the layoff decisions.

For anyone who hasn't figured this out yet, Cigna is tracking everything you're doing using AI. AI scans your email, IMs, reads your calendar, WebEx meeting transcripts, etc. to assess how "efficient" and "productive" you are and make judgments about how necessary/valuable of an employee you are. This data is sent to senior management and the ghouls at McKinsey to inform the layoff decisions.

If there was any doubt about this, it was confirmed in the recent AI training. Hi Big Brother!

So we make a deal with Amazon on AI and now they get to add their spyware onto our computers….lovely

Morale is struggling, so naturally the answer is more tracking, more reporting, and more micromanagement. Let's help leadership out and crowdsource some new ideas.

I've got a few to get us started:

Require all reps to share their phone location 24/7.
Distribute mandatory Apple AirTag necklaces so management never loses sight of anyone.
Require reps to check in from a bookstore landline every morning and every afternoon.
Install a dashboard showing how long each rep spends parked in a parking lot.
Require hourly selfies with customers to prove relationship building is occurring.
Daily Teams meetings to discuss progress made since the previous Teams meeting.
Mandatory "enthusiasm score" submitted at the end of each day.
GPS-enabled company shirts so leadership can track employee engagement in real time.
Require reps to livestream campus visits so managers can coach every conversation.
Weekly reports explaining why last week's reports were accurate.
Issue smartwatches that vibrate whenever a rep hasn't entered Salesforce data within 15 minutes.
Create a Power BI dashboard tracking Power BI dashboard usage.
Require manager approval before entering and exiting every building.
Monthly morale surveys followed by mandatory coaching sessions for anyone reporting low morale.
Introduce a "trust but verify" program where nobody is trusted and everything is verified.
Install QR codes throughout campus. Reps must scan one every 20 minutes to prove they're still working.

Maybe we're overlooking the obvious solution. If morale isn't improving after six months of increased oversight, perhaps the answer is even more oversight.

After all, nothing says "we value our employees" quite like treating them like parolees with Salesforce licenses.

I work in IT, and here's something worth keeping in mind.

Be careful what you say during Microsoft Teams calls. Even when a meeting isn't being recorded, it is still being transcribed. There's a bot that joins calls in the background, and you won't necessarily see it.

Your laptop activity is monitored, which you probably already know. What you might not realize is that activity on internal company websites can be logged down to individual clicks and keystrokes.

Some people will say you're foolish to discuss anything sensitive on company-owned equipment. They'd be correct.

I know for a fact that my computer keystrokes are being monitored, that my activity on my machine is compared to others in my group to help my manager know if I am faster/slower than others. I know for a fact that I get credit for writing emails but lose points for reading them (because I am not typing). I know my Teams activity is being metered and monitored. I know this because my manager has not only told me it's happening, they've shown me the reports on their screen. Does anyone know if they're going to use AI to do qualitative assessments of what we're typing and saying rather than simple count the keystrokes quantitative metrics which tells you very little?

For any plants with AI cameras already installed. Any feedback? Are they really “just for safety “? Anyone fired from actions caught on camera?

Has anyone e heard of the tracking sensors coming to a floor near you? Supposedly they will be in the ceiling and under the desks for tracking. Charlotte has them going in on the 35, 30 and 27. Watch out big Gunjen is getting bigger.

WF's employee privacy notice, revised June 2026, reserves the right to monitor email, chats, calls, video recordings, internet use, office access data, computer activity, and CCTV — and says AI may be used as part of monitoring.

In plain words: "You should not expect privacy," including on your own device under BYOD policies.

WF is also among banks trialing AI facial recognition to monitor employees and customers.

Source: Wells Fargo Employee Privacy Notice, June 2026; OECD.AI.

Wasn’t this the same spyware plaguing BlueCross?

Ok, all you coffee badging, Costco shopping, laptop leaving, anti-collaborating RTO deniers, the con is up. The Stank is going to know how long you spend sipping your latte, getting your steps in, perfecting your golf swing, working on your penalty kick or kayaking on Lake Stankey. The Surplus Squad will not need a name on an office to find you when it is time for your layoff.

This is my two cents, most of you are seeing this as well. I think the mgmt is hitting things on three fronts, some of the things i'll list are familiar/announced, other maybe less so. Anyhow, they are pushing three transformation tracks, I'd name them: Management, Workforce, and Workplace....

On the Management Transformation side this boils down to greater surveilance and monitoring, standardized performance expectations and harsher consequences for noncompliance with policies (yep, RTO and others)...

On the Workforce side this means that we'll have fewer US salaried employees... There will be MUCH more geographic flexibility in sourcing labor. We'll want more lower-cost labor locations.

Workplace is being transformed as well, this means consolidated facilities, hotel desking, selective remotework exceptions, RTO sh-t, etc.

So, yeah, this place is massively changing and nothing is going in the worker's favor.

Big brother is watching.
Instead of coming here to learn about issues and what people think, ET (KT) is more concerned with reprimanding those who might be posting. As if there are not more important things they could focus time and resources on. Hey, ET, this is part of the problem.

At 11:15 in the morning whether you’re working in the office or from home your laptop takes a photograph of your screen to monitor what you’re doing. Don’t believe it? Close all your windows at 11:13 and watch what happens at 11:15.

Between breathing down our necks about coming in three days, coffee badging, making people in Richardson and Chicago swipe their badge to leave at the end of the day and this, we’re being watched more and more.

We never got a warning or anything. But we did get a novel with instructions for a new process to log in to work remote.

With RCE having finally implanted turnstiles to badge in and out, do they do any time tracking? Doubt it would show up on a dashboard but for any sites who have had them, any consequences?

Be careful with what and with whom you share your personal details related to rto. There are snitches and try hards everywhere, complaining that it’s not fair people leave early, some people they never see come in, one guy left at lunch and didn’t log back in, blah blah. These same people are also submitting suggestions to HR to track ip login time, implement timesheet system, etc.

As a manager, I have had to tell these ICs to chill out, hr is not enforcing to that extent, nor are they privy to people with medical accommodations, personal circumstances, etc. These are usually the people that have been at citi for 10 years plus.

It’s like these folks have nothing better to do with their time other than to invent new ways to make other people miserable.

Has anyone else noticed the ominous new Big Brother messaging on the PulsePoint telescreens? The message is to report other associates to the corporate authorities if they display any of several listed behaviors, including withdrawing and decreasing work performance. Creepy!

We never seem to have a shortage of complaints regarding RTO, so I’d like to add a potential new one to the list. I’m curious how they are actually calculating RTO, since that seems to be an ongoing issue. Does anyone know if this WiFi geolocation technology is something they are using, or considering using? I found this article and found the possibility is honestly quite terrifying.

https://www.howtogeek.com/708500/how-devices-use-wi-fi-to-determine-your-physical-location/

It goes without saying but just a friendly reminder during the reorg. Big brothers are watching us.

I’ve heard rumors that they are starting or have started to track how long you are connected to the internal corporate network. Has anyone heard about this? I know they can see badge swipes and internal network connection but is it true they are now monitoring how long you are connected to the internal network?

First Oracle is requiring everyone to use an Oracle provided laptop. This means no more BYOD computers of any kind. Furthermore Oracle is going to require everyone to signup with identity scanning AI company own by Palantir. Upload your passport and full face scan. The next big step will be required face scan checks every 15 minutes. This will be an automatic process that will require you to not cover your camera. You will not be notified of this. If your camera is covered you will be locked out. This is where Oracle security is going.

U.S. Bank’s culture increasingly feels built around one assumption: employees cannot be trusted.

Track IP addresses because people might not be working where they say they are.

Crack down on medical accommodations because someone might be abusing the system.

Centralize / eliminate Business Resource Groups because employees might be spending too much time on work that doesn’t directly produce output.

That is Theory X management: assume the worst, increase control, reduce autonomy, monitor more closely.

The problem is that policies designed around the small percentage of employees who might abuse trust eventually punish the employees who earned it.

And once people realize they are being managed as potential problems instead of valued professionals, engagement dies very quickly.

You can force compliance.

You cannot surveil people into caring.

If so, don’t think top users will not be on the RIF list? I mean Dan is BIG into AI I would think this would be layoff criteria 100%

Whatever sh-t vendor product they are using to do their screen recording surveillance work, su-ks hard, my Windows laptop last few weeks, has had major pauses and sluggishness when using web forms (any page) , button clicks , or typing, it just pauses for 2-5 seconds, then continues.. WTF

Its pretty clear its a surveillance product as it periodically blanks out my screen , usually in the middle of something , and capturing my keystrokes.... I use these machines exclusively for work, i have my own phone for personal stuff., so I dont care if they want to pay me to wait around, but its stupid frustrating

Any from CSO know what surveillance cr-p theur using and is there anyway to optimize these machines to to be so innundated with cr-p vendor software

It should come as no surprise but at the employee group conference Stankey admitted to using AI to query things like how many power points had a version of x or more, how many meetings include x or more people. This is what he's admitting to. Just a reminder that anything you do on a company device or product is more readily available than ever.

Intel is such a trash company. The management is allowed to make decisions that ruin the company for it's employees. Management does not care about anyone below them and will sc--w you over at any cost. Intel HR likes to drive around the parking lot recording people with their dash cams in an attempt to fire them for time clock fraud. Intel isn't what is once was. Horrible decisions made my management has ruined what could be a good thing.

Can someone explain what the difference is? For example Central Supervision, Specials Surveillance , Compliance people in the Markets, Finet branch supervisors, internal branch exams etc. Who is who?

How are all the BU’s feeling about Devon rolling out the new Samsara fleet cameras with forward/rear facing cameras and microphones. Just tell your people you don’t trust them at this point.

I'm thinking about joining our grossly overpriced onsite fitness center and hop on a treadmill sometimes during the day. You have to badge in/out of course in our surveillance state. Anyone know if the system would subtract this time from the 8 hour requirement?

How do they pick who stalk in and outside of work for dirt?

Any supervisors here can confirm what they actually monitor?

Anyone from IT or Security that can chime in.
I know that we are tracking I am just unsure what's being tracked.

It allows MS to take screen shots of your computer every so often and store them on the PC.

Managers are independently, checking coworkers addresses so I would not work from home for a month if you are not impacted. That is just my suggestion.

Doesn’t this just sound like a mechanism to see what folks are doing on a daily basis and harvest info to train models to replace them. Some Sr. Directors and VPs should be scared when it sees how little they do

Does anyone know if Cigna is deploying Verint company-wide now, or just to certain departments? Saw a director hyping it up like it's something to look forward to, but a quick search shows it’s a desktop process analytics (keylogging) used for heavy micromanagement in call centers. Curious if other departments - especially engineering and analytics teams - are being subjected to this tracking or if it's just us.

Just to confirm, this will be implemented to track us and help them get rid of us?

Do you or your team have to install WorkIQ? Company is using WorkIQ to get rid of employee making silly excuses.

The Washington Post faces a new class-action lawsuit. It is accused of "surveillance pricing" against subscribers. The lawsuit alleges the paper harvested personal data to set unequal prices. Longtime customers reportedly paid more than new subscribers. The Clarkson Law Firm seeks punitive and statutory damages.

https://www.wfmd.com/2026/06/11/washington-post-faces-class-action-lawsuit-alleging-surveillance-pricing-of-subscribers/

Anyone know why the cameras are in the south BTC parking lot (the ones outside of high theft stores)?