• Riskable@programming.devEnglish
      21·
      10 months ago

      Nonsense! Calum is doing what Calum does at home. If the company doesn’t want to see it they shouldn’t be watching him like that when he’s at home.

      Remember: Calum isn’t feeling well. Any doctor would say Calum is doing his part to get better and stay healthy!

      • Soup@lemmy.world
        3·
        10 months ago

        Calum is using a work machine for personal actuvities, though. A little Youtube never hurt anyone but straight-up watching porn “between enquiries”, which sounds like during work hours or something, is kinda not on.

        Work shouldn’t distrust employees this much and these measures never lead to increased productivity but Calum is also a complete fucking idiot.

      • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        You seem to misunderstand. The tech isn’t saying, “Hey, we’re watching you,”, they’re saying, “Hey, your monitor here at work is showing off everything you’re doing and everyone in the office can see.”

  • Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world
    3·
    10 months ago

    I also work from home and use my work laptop for work only. Not even googling stuff, nothing. Just work. Never even opened the media player or went to youtubes website once.

    I have my own computer running on a separate screen and I can do and watch whatever the fuck I want during working hours. I can play a game or watch a movie and nobody knows. Its that simple.

    Same with phones. Never use work phone for personal stuff.

    Its not even being tech savvy, just common sense ffs.

    • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
      1·
      10 months ago

      Same here. It also removes some hassle when changing jobs. All of your personal stuff is on the computer you own and all of the work stuff is on the the computer the company owns. Just turn in your work laptop and you’re done with that place and on to the next.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
        1·
        10 months ago

        I work in the IT department for my company so I know for a fact that there’s no monitoring on the work laptops, which is super strange but whatever.

        Still I wouldn’t use the work laptop for anything other than work activities because despite the fact I 100% know there’s no monitoring I still don’t trust it. Besides, It’s unprofessional, and although I don’t really care about that all that much, it’s good to get into the habit of not doing personal activities on a work laptop, because one day they might start monitoring, and this way I’m already in the habit of not doing anything personal.

  • tee9000@lemmy.world
    1·
    10 months ago

    People in this thread who question critical thinking skills but fail to identify the most obvious staged content of the week on lemmy.

    Thanks

    Gary

  • pedz@lemmy.ca
    1·
    10 months ago

    I have been working from home for years and my employer is not watching our screen. However about a decade ago we received a company wide email from an admin reminding everyone that they can see DNS requests when we’re connected to the VPN.

    • Taleya@aussie.zone
      1·
      10 months ago

      Thats why i have a laptop for work, solely for work, nothing but work right next to my big rig