After reading the article I’m not sure where I stand in this question. Truly, it’s good to know if your employees are doing what they are supposed to do, but this problem could be solved by adding more small scaled dead-lines. This will create opportunities for the manager to monitor their employees without snooping, as long as they complete their tasks. But a person simply can’t work eight straight hours and thereby need a break now and then. They might use this break to send private e-mails or surf the Internet. Everyone should be allowed to have some kind of privacy at work and not be monitored all the time. I know I wouldn’t like to be monitored all the time because it sends signals that the company doesn’t trust you, making it less fun to work.
The increasing surveillance of the contemporary society is developing in a bad way. It seems that our freedom to do whatever we want is being questioned/at stake. If we can’t do whatever we want, then where is our freedom? Thanks to the development in technology it is easier for companies to follow every movement we make and the websites we visits. If this surveillance increases there will be no real free world, life will turn into something that looks like a prison. This is not what I want. Surveillance should be used in acceptable levels where you still feel that you’re allowed to do whatever you want, not to follow your every move. Even though security is important it should never attack a person’s integrity. Security has gone too far when someone’s integrity is threatened. What you think and believe is not important when it comes to security.
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I find your reflections interesting and agree to most of them, but there are a couple of thoughts I would like to comment on.
SvaraRadera’They might use this break to send private e-mails or surf the Internet. Everyone should be allowed to have some kind of privacy at work without being monitored all the time.’
Every time I start my computer at work I have to agree to that all my activities are being monitored. There is no way around it as long as I am using the network provided by my employer. If you want to go private and do what you like on your break, you can’t expect to use your employer’s property doing so.
‘Surveillance should be used in acceptable levels where you still feel that you’re allowed to do whatever you want,…’
I don’t think it’s the digital surveillance that keeps most people from doing as they like but rather the kind of society in which they live. It’s easier to rumble around without getting noticed in a big city than in a smaller community where prying neighbours and a well developed jungle telegraph poses a much bigger threat than any surveillance camera. Besides, the recordings will probably never be watched unless a crime has been committed.
You have some interesting thoughts and as you say it's hard to know how to stand in this question
SvaraRaderaI liked your blog and find it quite interesting and I agree with a lot of your reflection.
SvaraRaderaI think that The increasing surveillance of the contemporary society is developing in a good way, because its very important for the managers to know how there employees work and it is also difficult for the managers to know how much the employees benefit is for the company. In today's society there are so many competitors that it is very difficult to survive in the market. Companies must be more efficient to survive in the long term. To known how efficient your employees are can be useful if you want to cut down some cost or if you want to increase the profit
I think that our freedom of what we want to do should be limited when we are at work. In my opinion surveillance has more positive effects because we have to consider what is best for the company.
This is truly a complicated subject. However, I don't see how implementing "small scaled deadlines" would solve the need for surveillance. First, not all workplaces can adapt to the usage of small deadlines. I simply cannot follow your line of thought here.
SvaraRaderaI am actually pro "snooping" to some degree, but a valid point was made in the following statement: "... monitored all the time because it sends signals that the company doesn't trust you." The lack of trust is perhaps one of the reasons for companies to act this way?
In the last paragraph the following is stated: "if...surveillance increases there will be no free world, life will turn into something that looks like a prison." I am missing valid arguments here. As this is, as previously stated, a complicated subject we should honor it by not straying too far from facts and staying away from fiction.