Your Boss Wants You Back in the Office. This Surveillance Tech Could Be Waiting for You
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Violation of human rights.
Oh, wait, maybe they mean USA...
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The latest, deluxe end point of these time and attendance tchotchkes and apps is something like Austin-headquartered HID’s OmniKey platform. Designed for factories, hospitals, universities and offices, this is essentially an all-encompassing RFID log-in and security system for employees, via smart cards, smartphone wallets, and wearables.
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Thankfully the place i work for is just a wannabe and has to weigh financial decisions like this and thankfully always gets denied. I always find it funny when this stuff is brought up because it takes a lot of distrust and bad decisions to think spending a small fortune to watch your employees is going to make them work harder and increase productivity. Like, even if that was somewhat true, which it isn't for many reasons, you spent a ton of money on a system that will probably take away any increase in profits anyway. The only people who win here are the companies paid to install and setup the equipment.
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Bosses want to take advantage of workers.
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Incredible, everything in the office is watched, heat sensor, O2 sensor, enter/exit, vending machine etc.
Basically you can be fired because you go to the bathroom too often or go to the coffee machine too many time, or use too much O2 ?
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Thankfully the place i work for is just a wannabe and has to weigh financial decisions like this and thankfully always gets denied. I always find it funny when this stuff is brought up because it takes a lot of distrust and bad decisions to think spending a small fortune to watch your employees is going to make them work harder and increase productivity. Like, even if that was somewhat true, which it isn't for many reasons, you spent a ton of money on a system that will probably take away any increase in profits anyway. The only people who win here are the companies paid to install and setup the equipment.
It's an illusion to think business decisions are always made based on economic considerations. This is about power and control, not about saving money.
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Thankfully the place i work for is just a wannabe and has to weigh financial decisions like this and thankfully always gets denied. I always find it funny when this stuff is brought up because it takes a lot of distrust and bad decisions to think spending a small fortune to watch your employees is going to make them work harder and increase productivity. Like, even if that was somewhat true, which it isn't for many reasons, you spent a ton of money on a system that will probably take away any increase in profits anyway. The only people who win here are the companies paid to install and setup the equipment.
And a fraction of the money could probably be used to pay for raises that would actually make employees happy...
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It's an illusion to think business decisions are always made based on economic considerations. This is about power and control, not about saving money.
Businesses aren't rational...
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Incredible, everything in the office is watched, heat sensor, O2 sensor, enter/exit, vending machine etc.
Basically you can be fired because you go to the bathroom too often or go to the coffee machine too many time, or use too much O2 ?
It’s weird everything gets placed under “free will” to let go of someone or firing someone. So that means reporting can be anything obnoxious while the main reason for it is “free will” but we fired them or bc of x, y, and or z!
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Maybe this is one of those autism things again but I'm really annoyed by this headline format and I wish articles would stop using it.
I don't have a boss, nor an office job. Stop assuming that everyone does.
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The latest, deluxe end point of these time and attendance tchotchkes and apps is something like Austin-headquartered HID’s OmniKey platform. Designed for factories, hospitals, universities and offices, this is essentially an all-encompassing RFID log-in and security system for employees, via smart cards, smartphone wallets, and wearables.
how do they prevent spoofing of those rfid keys?
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Maybe this is one of those autism things again but I'm really annoyed by this headline format and I wish articles would stop using it.
I don't have a boss, nor an office job. Stop assuming that everyone does.
No boss or office job? I'm totally reporting you to HR for that.
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And a fraction of the money could probably be used to pay for raises that would actually make employees happy...
HIGHER WAGES IS inflation
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Maybe this is one of those autism things again but I'm really annoyed by this headline format and I wish articles would stop using it.
I don't have a boss, nor an office job. Stop assuming that everyone does.
Seems like the title is immediately gaining the attention of its target audience. It doesn't apply to you, so you can just move on.
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Seems like the title is immediately gaining the attention of its target audience. It doesn't apply to you, so you can just move on.
so you can just move on
Oh, you're highly underestimating my capability to get stuck in the little things
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so you can just move on
Oh, you're highly underestimating my capability to get stuck in the little things
People tend to highly underestimate the people they do not know, over estimate how unique their personal experience is, and demand external variables be tailored to their personal tastes.
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how do they prevent spoofing of those rfid keys?
To oversimplify, they use the same type of encryption as you might see on a chip-enabled credit card.
Cloning the card isn't enough, you'd also have to clone a specialized key-signing chip to correctly respond to authentication requests.
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how do they prevent spoofing of those rfid keys?
No idea, I just quoted the article since I hate those clickbait headlines.
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Maybe this is one of those autism things again but I'm really annoyed by this headline format and I wish articles would stop using it.
I don't have a boss, nor an office job. Stop assuming that everyone does.
I hate how English overuses personal pronouns.
"Know your ABCs?"
Nyet. I refuse to take ownership of the modern Latin alphabet, which is used by billions of English speakers worldwide and with minor variations by over a hundred more languages. A standard ordering of its letters is a common good by and for the public domain so there is no "ABCs" of mine, yours or any other single person but rather "the ABCs".
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To oversimplify, they use the same type of encryption as you might see on a chip-enabled credit card.
Cloning the card isn't enough, you'd also have to clone a specialized key-signing chip to correctly respond to authentication requests.
Quite interesting, if I may say so.....
