Employee Monitoring Quotes

The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people.

All Federal employees should be subjected to drug tests.

If you have nothing to hide, if you're actually working for eight hours, or 10 or 12 hours, however long people decide to work, it's OK to have windows around conference rooms, it's OK to have cubicles. Because you're actually working. If you're not working, doing social media and spending half the day for personal stuff, then an environment like this will actually bother you.

It can feel like an invasion of privacy, involving an employer in a personal matter.

If you're working for somebody and trying to check on them, it never works. You're just saying what they want you to say at the end of the day.

Its pretty rare for companies to have a snooping policy, although it is getting more common.

That's the great irony of allowing passionate people to work from home. A manager's natural instinct is to worry that her workers aren't getting enough work done. But the real threat is that they will wind up working too hard. And because the manager isn't sitting across from her worker anymore, she can't look in the person's eyes and see burnout.

If a bank is robbed by one of its employees, do you think the bank is corrupt? I don't think so. I think it's a victim.

Unless a group of workers know their work is under surveillance, that they are being rated as fairly as human beings, with the fallibility that goes with human judgment, can rate them, and that at least an attempt is made to measure their worth to an organization in relative terms, they are likely to sink back on length of service as the sole reason for retention and promotion.

I don't have very much time to surf the net, because it's as though my boss has a tracking device on me. The instant I'm looking at a Chloe sweater on Shopbop, I'll get a call in my office with a PA asking: "Paul wants to know where you are and why you're not in the writers room, and if maybe you're online shopping."

If I could find out who leaked the contents of this report, he or she would be a former employee of the Pentagon.

In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you.

I don't believe that employers should have access to an employee's private passwords, including Facebook.

Many company policies restrict use of E-mail, limit access to offensive Web sites and prohibit disclosure of confidential information. Few policies, if any, directly address personal Web pages.

Businesses might have been helped by the ability to promote themselves on the Internet, but they have also been hit by the web's encouragement of time-wasting by their staff.