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A new workplace networking system could dramatically improve employee productivity and intra-office communications. But, in a crushing flip-side, it could also produce extremely disgruntled, dispirited and paranoid workers. Fuji Xerox's FX Palo Alto Laboratory developed the software, which carries the placatory name myUnity, as a simple method for coworkers and bosses to observe and interact and with one another. It operates in similar fashion to instant-messaging services and social-networking feeds, but myUnity integrates smartphones, desktops and laptops in order to provide constant access to an employees' actions -- regardless of the location. The employee feed screen displays a cross-section of activity for each worker, including if they're on the phone, which room they're occupying, if they're off-site or -- with motion sensors-- if visitors (or slackers) are in their office. According to Technology Review, myUnity can even "tell if a person is working at her desk by tapping into her webcam or a security camera with a view of her workspace."
Such workplace monitoring may seem terrifying (or just an inevitability of modern life), but services like myUnity could at least precipitate the welcome demise of one particularly abhorrent and extremely annoying office activity -- the devastating 'FarmVille.'
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Subscribe to commentsRalphNov 2nd 2010 6:50AM
Big brother's watching even closer
BillNov 2nd 2010 7:23AM
Y.T.F. (yes, WHY the f--k) should ANYONE be paranoid about this???? YOU ARE AT WORK TO WORK!!!!!!!!!! Anyway, TMR in Broomall,PA could use this after 5PM.
Harry HurtNov 2nd 2010 9:52AM
This is an outrage! Any company that won't trust me to do my work is no company for me. I'll go where the bosses have better respect for the workers. This is as low as the cargo airline that sent spies to watch their pilots to see if they went to bars, on their own time, then report back to the bosses what, and how much, they drank. Then the pilot would be fired, even though he was not scheduled to fly. Outrage.
Who would want to work for someone who was always looking over their shoulder?
chckpopeNov 2nd 2010 10:03AM
If these paranoid employers would start trusting their employees and pay them better then they would have hard working productive workers. And all this big brother technology can get tossed. I personally wouldn't want to work at a place that felt it had to watch my every move. Not that I would have anything to hide, but simply asked, who's doing the watching and why aren't they working?