Would you work for a company that monitored you with surveillance tech?
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Sky installers as well.
I don't think I have that many cameras but it is funny when they call you and say "Hello Adam are you still at Wednesbury"? I always reply is the sky blue?
Afaik our recordings can only be viewed in times of an incident so someone cannot just go and look at footage for no reason. They are also triggered to store the footage if something happens.
In my old line of work we had CCTV all over the factory. It was mainly used for accident investigation and it would be used to see if a cause of accident was at fault with the employee or the surroundings/machinery. This all come in around 2010/11.
Do not forget the hour wasted reviewing those KPI's with other senior managers when you could say in two minutes what the issue was for being behind on something. Thank god I am not in that mindless rubbish anymore. Towards the end I must have been spending over a third of my time in pointless meetings when I could have been managing my team and getting on with my own work.
On a single deck: 2 forward (one hidden in destination screen surround, one at dash level), one above driver, one about 2/3s down the vehicle facing rear passenger seating, 4 flank cams 2 front facing rear, 2 rear facing forward. There are 3 or 4 interior cams if double deck, again one is hidden.
Ours are fully accessible on request by management and recorded 24/7 and can hold 5-6 WEEKS of footage on each vehicle but only at 10fps. But they will only really ask for access if there's a complaint or incident.
All our vehicles are location tracked by 3 separate GPS systems, one of which is publically accessible, so they know to the foot where we are, what speed etc.
No thanks. I worked already for a huge corporation which used to monitor every single step of their employees.
Sometimes it was humiliating and that was the main reason why i started my own business.
I found here reliable guys who help during the whole process and have zero regrets about it.
Sometimes it was humiliating and that was the main reason why i started my own business.
I found here reliable guys who help during the whole process and have zero regrets about it.
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My company makes surveillance tech. It's everywhere in our buildings and it bothers me not. It did a little at first but seeing as I'm honest, I work hard and do my job, I don't really care. No-one really spends all day watching that stuff. Only when needed. Not quite sure why it's felt like it's needed but there we go. I'm probably too honest for my own good and mostly think others are OK too. I know of no times when the camera's footage was used against anyone. Ah, yes I do lol, many years ago. Someone did some naughty crack in the toilets at work and left their used paraphernalia in there. Someone I know went in after them and smelt something strange and found the rolled up tin foil, burnt on the outside with some sort of burnt residue inside. They checked the camera to see who came out of there before the person who found the stuff did. Next thing, that guy was marched out of the office. That is the only time I know of. I don't think anyone would want to take our hardware home. I already have some of my company's hardware at home any way, for when I'm supporting from home.
I remember years and years ago when I worked in retail selling brown and white goods, back in the 90's. They would search staff randomly on their way out the front door at night. I think the cameras they had back then were very rudimentary. There was one guy who was the deputy manager of the department store, it was quite a large one too. Gone now. Anyway, he was buying in loads of men's and women's shoes for a shoe shop which the store didn't have. It turns out he was selling them at his wife's own shoe shop elsewhere lol. They made hundreds of thousands out of it over the years apparently. He went to prison I believe. I've rambled enough now.
I remember years and years ago when I worked in retail selling brown and white goods, back in the 90's. They would search staff randomly on their way out the front door at night. I think the cameras they had back then were very rudimentary. There was one guy who was the deputy manager of the department store, it was quite a large one too. Gone now. Anyway, he was buying in loads of men's and women's shoes for a shoe shop which the store didn't have. It turns out he was selling them at his wife's own shoe shop elsewhere lol. They made hundreds of thousands out of it over the years apparently. He went to prison I believe. I've rambled enough now.
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I use them to hire a guy to help with basic finance admin, works very well for me.In short, no.
I used to do a lot of freelance writing, and it was suggested that I work for a company which shall remain nameless [although, they are in fact called Upwork] who not only used to insist that you install their client to do their work, but that this client would keylog your work and then take photos every ten minutes to ensure you were actually working at your desk.
Needless to say I never did a job for them.
I can imagine that the other way around is a different story though!
Certainly, CCTV is pretty much a given in most workplaces, especially where cash is used. My workplace has cameras outside and at every entrance and exit. I don't believe there are any in the other areas that I've seen though. None of our laptops have this software installed that I'm aware of either.
In short, no.
I used to do a lot of freelance writing, and it was suggested that I work for a company which shall remain nameless [although, they are in fact called Upwork] who not only used to insist that you install their client to do their work, but that this client would keylog your work and then take photos every ten minutes to ensure you were actually working at your desk.
Needless to say I never did a job for them.
Jesus, we hire through them on the odd occasion, terrible.
My workspace is monitored by NINE CCTV cameras & telematics gives my position, speed, direction of travel and various accelerometer readings.
Mine too - minus the CCTV cameras but plus a sound recorder.
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Except they do in the form of security cameras and the fact you can be seen.
you have never ran a business or had a team of people under you.
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That seems like an excessive level of redundancy for a bus. Is google maps really that important for getting you to the next bus stop
A webcam is a lot more personnal than a security camera.
Also a security camera is there for general site security, and while it can be used to track employees, they won't bother with that most of the time. I doubt sa manager is going to look through security footage to track your precise movements around the office. Turning on a webcam is only for tracking employees and serves no other purpose.
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That’s where you are wrong. Nice of you to judge.
If monitoring for things like accidents that’s perfectly fine but not for making every keystroke and watching peoples pc screens all day that’s disgraceful.
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That seems like an excessive level of redundancy for a bus. Is google maps really that important for getting you to the next bus stop
They're not redundancies.
1 is for operations office for vehicle tracking
1 is for the ticket machine for things like tickets. It also provides location for passenger information system (time to location)
Last one is public access and required by traffic commissioner.
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Hmm, maybe.
Depends on the use, if it's for security then that is fine to have cameras in the office. If it is to micro-manage and make sure you are working, then no. Things like using web cameras to monitor you or monitoring you teams/slack status would make me leave the company.