Employer's snooping on employees

We recently wrote about it already and described legislative moves introduced in Australia and the EU to forego the attempt of employers to invade further the privacy of their employees.

BusinessWeek now describes an even scarier situation in an article quoting Faith Popcorn, a famour futurist working in the US.

Let's start with the positive aspects: In the article she describes quite a lot of different situations that are actually positive - like less travelling (well, some might regret this), but more virtual meetings. More working from home, because of the improvement in technologies.

She foresees that your employer "will take care of you" - providing you with food, clothing needs, movies.

It states that employers will be able to monitor worker's stress level to send them off for a break if the levels get too high! Or if the cholestrol level is getting too high, the employer sends you different kind of food.

Firstly - if the employer is knowing everything about me, the company should be able to provide me with healthy food in the first place. But, what worries us is that if employers can monitor employees in such a way, i get the creepy feeling of Big Brother is watching me - where is the privacy? There is none, accoring to Popcorn.

We sincerely hope that she is off the mark - she was right by predicting that TV's will become flat, a couple of years back - but please, not this time!!

(By Asia Business Consulting)