besides tracking yammer remember the company can track what time you badge in and out, if you are working from home or working from work they can monitor every keystroke to see how productive you are, and they can monitor how fast and where you drive with your company phone
the post is not mine, it's sourced here @XxbhF8R-1brr - i just think it's a worthy reminder that we are being tracked 24/7
The people left after the layoffs must be feeling like winners... invincible
I should add that, there are a lot of things you could probably do on your phone to mitigate tracking, whereas on a company-provided laptop, it’s next to impossible.
Computer monitoring is standard protocol for corps. Keystroke tracking is doable but rarely used, unless someone really, really, really, really need you fired right away.
Location monitoring through your phone, while technologically feasible, is rather meaningless because the phone is not your primary productivity tool. I often leave my work phone at work/home because everyone knows my cell (I hardly use my work phone). So whatever location data provided by that phone doesn’t constitute evidence that I’m not working diligently for the company.
It's possible, but who has the time for that. Execs just throwing darts. The hardest working person on my team, 15 years experience at GM (mostly as contractor, only recent a GM employee) got laid off. Worked nights, weekends, laptop while on vacation. It doesn't matter. Loyalty, hardwork, experience is not rewarded at GM.
I just have not seen any evidence of people’s computers being tracked. The flip side is if they are looking for a reason to get rid of you they can find something no matter what. And truth be told, I really don’t want to be working under police state conditions. The example from before was really just to prove they are not really using the tracking abilities as far as we can see.
I know for a FACT many employees (young and old) have their social media tabs open even on LAB computers running machine tests haha
Hell my manager watches top gear videos on YouTube.
Not sure about gaming part BUT unless if you are doing something REALLy egregious (watching p--n on company time/network), then it is not necessarily red flagged....
For the layoffs, it was done broad spectrum so highly doubt it was factored into cuts
Know lots of people who worked 50-60 hours a week and never slacked off who were let go. While it may be true GM is tracking employees, this is more likely people trying to find a reasonable explanations for the layoffs because it helps us sleep at night.
@XyxgcJY-eru wow I feel like that was a personal attack. But overall I agree with your point.
May be they can. Nothing matters as long as you are a buddy of your manager(s).
I sit next to a guy that comes in late every single day. He averages only about 6.5 hrs a day on the clock. He has figured out how to run a video game on his engineering laptop and plays it a lot at work day during the day. When he works from home sometimes he does not even log on until 10:00 a.m.
So I believe you when you say everything we do can be tracked. I just don’t see any evidence of it actually happening.