Imagine your performance at work was assessed directly from the amount of e-mails sent, the amount of time consumed editing a document, or the time spent in meetings or even moving your mouse. This may sound ludicrous but your boss might be doing exactly that.

Privacy International and UCL student exposes how productivity suite like Office 365 offers features that can enable employers to access all communications and activities on Microsoft services without the employees’ knowledge

  • ganymede@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    its probable (imo)

    the supposed employee performance metrics is only the lure.

    the main prize for m$ is to associate use of m$ products WITH employee performance.

    ie. take 20x longer to do something because you had to use a m$ product, rather than do it quickly and easily in some FOSS software.

    that’s a win for m$ and everyone else loses, employee/employer/foss etc

  • SkyNTP@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Businesses that use these kinds of metrics to evaluate performance don’t have a clue how they produce value for the client (because that’s the only performance metric that matters) or are so far removed from it to the point of irrelevance and are doomed to fail or doomed to lose high performing employees.