Thread regarding 3M layoffs

Talking about safety incidents. The asia VP is now sh!tting in his pants as the metrics look bad. He now demands all his plant directors to make sure the metric looks good till end of the year. Talk about managing KPIs.

Some plants are using safety cameras that are AI. I have seen these in action and they use blurred images of the actual person and superimpose a stick figure over the blurred image to simulate what they are doing.
They do look for phone use while working, fork truck and pedestrian interactions, and poor ergonomics while working.

It’s not super obvious who the person is, but it isn’t that hard to figure out. If the camera is pointed at a specific work center during a specific time the plant knows who is working there.

The phone use one surprised me. It’s pretty clear that the person stopped walking down an aisle and stopped for a long time to look at their phone. It looks like they aren’t enforcing a no phone policy but more that the person stopped for a long time to view their phone.

As far as reports go it’s pretty generic. X number of phone uses, x number of fork truck interactions etc…. They seem to use it as general data to guide the workforce to do better at policies that are already agreed to. If your factory said no phones in the aisles, well what are you doing looking at your phone.

This is just the beginning of what’s to come.

This is just rumors. 3M is about 15 years behind in its IT systems. It doesn’t have the technical capability….

@d5

share your email password with us, nothing to worry about, you surely ain't doing anything bad?

Did you know that the same technology already worked last century, and why you worried about it now? Are you cheating at work?

@b4
Trust...wait I've heard of that, isn't there a video telling us Trust is the solution to all our problems?

Whenever there are security cameras setup, it means there is no more Trust.