Per today’s Rutland Herald:
“I will not agree to the site monitoring or the establishment of a database with the ability to collect such information about our staff, as I believe it undermines the trust we have developed and is, in fact, counter to the establishment of a productive work environment,” Spaulding wrote.
I agree with this completely. As a state, we’ve wasted over $100,000 on this technology, and it’s a fairly crappy way to treat your employees.
But kind of buried down the line in this story is the following statement:
Spaulding said he will allow the monitoring technology to be used, but only he and his deputy will be privy to the data.
So it’s not that he thinks it’s a problem to undermine the trust he’s developed with his staff. It’s just that he doesn’t want the human resources department to undermine it. He… wants to do all the undermining himself?
Seriously? Is this a solution?
that at work computer usage monitoring has anything to do with trust. It has to do with making use of the employer’s property and the employers right to control that property usage.
In my opinion there is way, way too much hyperbole from both sides in this whole debate.