Warehouse-style employee-tracking technology is coming for the office worker.
  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 months ago

    “Nearly half of US employees admit to time theft!”

    Nah, it’s the other way around. Company profits of any kind are wage theft.

    • yeehaw@lemmy.caEnglish
      12·
      2 months ago

      I mean a company does need to make profit. Excessive profits is another thing.

      • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Yeah the “great work guys, we doubled the EBITDA this year. Congratulations!..Here’s your 3% raise” kind of sucks

      • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        No they do not. They need to break even only. Profit is the result of charging customers too much, paying employees too little, or enshitification.

          • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            Worker productivity is like holding sand. It you grab it and squeeze it hard, it just runs through your fingers and falls to the ground. But if you cup your hands and support it carefully you can hold on to much larger amounts of it.

      • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Nope, any profits not reinvested in the company itself, or the employees is wage theft. Full stop. Capitalism is a scam we’ve been fed so rich assholes can get richer.

        • yeehaw@lemmy.caEnglish
          0·
          2 months ago

          I think it’s a bit unfair to blanket statement that capitalism is a scam. There need to be checks in place. Like, I agree it’s not fair that me as a business owner can simply say “this year we are skipping raises, and I am paying myself 2 billion”. There’s no reason any one person needs a trillion dollars. That’s an insane amount of money. Even 100 million is a shit ton of money. There definitely need to be checks in place, but I don’t think communism is the answer either.

          Nope, any profits not reinvested in the company itself

          This isn’t clear to me what you’re saying “nope” to. How I said companies need to make profit? If so, they do. If they do not make profit they lose money, if they lose money they can’t reinvest into themselves or pay wages. Or maybe I misunderstand what you meant by “nope”.

          • ☂️-@lemmy.mlEnglish
            01·
            2 months ago

            capitalism is not only a scam to prop up our owners and make us slave away for them but its also destroying the literal planet we live in to keep them in power.

            the only way capitalism can be good is when it dies.

  • Singletona082@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    ‘time theft’

    Right. Treating human beings like robots where any ineffeciancy or time taken to not focus on corporate overlords is bad.

    Fuck 'em.

    • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
      7·
      2 months ago

      Wage theft is the largest property crime in the US but the state don’t care and parasite will do it if you left them.

      Never give a parasite note than what was paid for

      And current wages, it ain’t much and hence I shit on company time

  • PerogiBoi@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    My workplace installed desk presence sensors and has a stupid little robot roomba thing that drives up and down the rows documenting who’s in their seats.

    Edit: this is the damn robot that we have to be seen by: https://www.globaldws.com/virbrix

  • Broken@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    If they only spent this time and money on training the managers to…well, manage their employees.

    Stop thinking “time at your desk” is a kpi and start measuring results instead. It cuts the crap employees that are worthless and that in and of itself is a reward to good employees and team morale.

    I would rather have a productive employee get results in 4 hours and then leave than a crap employee who needs the full day to get the same job done. Then the good employee will learn to streamline it so they can get the job done in 3 hours and I win because my efficiency went up. They win because they get another hour of their life back daily…or dare I say, they want more work and I give it to them along with a pay increase.

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    there will be a $4.5 billion employee-monitoring-technology market, mostly in North America

    Toxic workplaces being toxic. That said, workplace monitoring is mostly not allowed here.