Companies have the right to monitor employees to ensure productivity, an Auckland uni lecturer says.

Companies have the right to monitor employees to ensure productivity but they must also protect the employee’s privacy, an Auckland University Business School lecturer says.

Last week US banking giant Wells Fargo sacked more than a dozen people for allegedly faking keyboard activity, pretending they were working at home when they were not.

The bank has not said how it picked up on the problem.

But a survey last year of 1000 US-based companies showed 96 percent of them were using some kind of monitoring to check up on employees working from home.

All of this raises questions around ethics and productivity.

  • Venator@lemmy.nz
    9·
    12 days ago

    some employees who were working from home may even use AI to do their work rather than doing it themselves, she said.

    She sounds like a moron who doesn’t understand AI at all. This is essentially equivalent to complaining that an accountant is using spreadsheets to do thier work for them instead of working things out using a pencil and paper…

      • Venator@lemmy.nz
        4·
        12 days ago

        Is generative AI useful for finance? I thought it was only really useful for programming, creative works, and design in the real world at the moment(with a lot of manual clean up etc.). But yeah you still need to be careful what data you give it, basically need to treat it the same as asking a question on a public forum like stack overflow or similar.