A recent report tore up the fig leaf that companies peeped at employees' privacy.

According to media surveys, a company spends 350 yuan to install a program and can monitor employees' chat records and computer screens in real time "without knowing it". Even when employees visit recruitment websites multiple times, they will be judged to be at risk of resignation.

　　As an employee, I naturally reject this kind of "streaking" in the workplace.

From another perspective, has the company "earned" it?

Not seen either.

　　Monitoring employees doesn't change the anxiety of a business.

Just like after entering industrial civilization, humans invented light bulbs and artificially "extended" the day.

It seems that there are "more" working hours in a day. In fact, this does not relieve people's sense of time urgency, but tightens the "clockwork" to improve efficiency.

　　In the era of efficiency, it is right to pursue efficiency, but some practices go astray.

From the previous exposure of monitoring employees to "fishing" at work, to the current monitoring of employees' resignation tendency; from the "unwilling" to slow down the speed of the delivery boy, to the "voluntary" overtime work of white-collar workers in the workplace.

Some companies seem to think that they don't have enough control over their employees and that more would be good.

As everyone knows, monitoring employees is as futile as "extending" the day.

What is needed to stimulate the vitality of employees is not the ability to calculate the organization, but the ability to perceive the needs of employees.

　　If employees no longer have privacy, what big data "sees" will no longer be meaningful.

Just as just after the media exposed the abuse of face recognition applications, some consumers expressed their attitudes by wearing helmets when they went to the sales department to see a house, which is a representative example.

Especially in the current era of accelerated reconstruction of the relationship between technology and people, this point must be constantly alerted.

　　Monitoring privacy is not workplace productivity.

When technology becomes a means, people are no different from tools, and the humanistic care and respect for personality that society should have are left behind.

If such thinking prevails, the workplace can become a web of control and control.

Such a tendency is worthy of vigilance and must be corrected.

(Liu Ranran)