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Topic: Creepy or reasonable?
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Fri 02/07/14 07:59 AM
Hitachi, the big electronics company based in Japan, is manufacturing and selling to corporations a device intended to increase efficiency in the workplace. It has a rather bland and generic-sounding name: the Hitachi Business Microscope.

Here's how it works:

The device looks like an employee ID badge that most companies issue. Workers are instructed to wear it in the office.

Embedded inside each badge, according to Hitachi, are "infrared sensors, an accelerometer, a microphone sensor and a wireless communication device."

Hitachi says that the badges record and transmit to management "who talks to whom, how often, where and how energetically."

It tracks everything.

If you get up to walk around the office a lot, the badge sends information to management about how often you do it, and where you go.

If you stop to talk with people throughout the day, the badge transmits who you're talking to (by reading your co-workers' badges), and for how long.

Do you contribute at meetings, or just sit there? Either way, the badge tells your bosses.

The stated intention of this is to increase productivity and get the most out of employees



edited from much larger story here: http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/02/opinion/greene-corporate-surveillance/?iref=obnetwork

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Fri 02/07/14 08:02 AM

Hitachi, the big electronics company based in Japan, is manufacturing and selling to corporations a device intended to increase efficiency in the workplace. It has a rather bland and generic-sounding name: the Hitachi Business Microscope.

Here's how it works:

The device looks like an employee ID badge that most companies issue. Workers are instructed to wear it in the office.

Embedded inside each badge, according to Hitachi, are "infrared sensors, an accelerometer, a microphone sensor and a wireless communication device."

Hitachi says that the badges record and transmit to management "who talks to whom, how often, where and how energetically."

It tracks everything.

If you get up to walk around the office a lot, the badge sends information to management about how often you do it, and where you go.

If you stop to talk with people throughout the day, the badge transmits who you're talking to (by reading your co-workers' badges), and for how long.

Do you contribute at meetings, or just sit there? Either way, the badge tells your bosses.

The stated intention of this is to increase productivity and get the most out of employees



edited from much larger story here: http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/02/opinion/greene-corporate-surveillance/?iref=obnetwork


What will they think of next

msharmony's photo
Fri 02/07/14 08:08 AM
would you accept a job that required you wear one?

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Fri 02/07/14 08:10 AM

would you accept a job that required you wear one?

No way
Why don't they make something useful like a solar powered vibrator

InvictusV's photo
Fri 02/07/14 08:13 AM
Deming is rolling over in his grave..

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Fri 02/07/14 08:14 AM


would you accept a job that required you wear one?

No way
Why don't they make something useful like a solar powered vibrator


You're welcome.
http://jezebel.com/5741064/solar-powered-vibrator-perfect-for-the-earth-conscious-horny

msharmony's photo
Fri 02/07/14 08:15 AM


would you accept a job that required you wear one?

No way
Why don't they make something useful like a solar powered vibrator


lol, I find it creepy too

but, I think, it would be a matter of the pay for me

a low paying wage with that type of restriction,, no way

a high paying job? 20 or more per hour, I could grin and bare it....

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Fri 02/07/14 08:16 AM



would you accept a job that required you wear one?

No way
Why don't they make something useful like a solar powered vibrator


You're welcome.
http://jezebel.com/5741064/solar-powered-vibrator-perfect-for-the-earth-conscious-horny

Lol, just put my order in.
Should arrive before my Duracels run out

InvictusV's photo
Fri 02/07/14 08:19 AM



would you accept a job that required you wear one?

No way
Why don't they make something useful like a solar powered vibrator


lol, I find it creepy too

but, I think, it would be a matter of the pay for me

a low paying wage with that type of restriction,, no way

a high paying job? 20 or more per hour, I could grin and bare it....


anyone who implements this system will either remove it or be out of business within a few years.


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Fri 02/07/14 08:37 AM



would you accept a job that required you wear one?

No way
Why don't they make something useful like a solar powered vibrator


lol, I find it creepy too

but, I think, it would be a matter of the pay for me

a low paying wage with that type of restriction,, no way

a high paying job? 20 or more per hour, I could grin and bare it....



:thumbsup: I hear that...The hard workers will vote reasonable, slackers will cry creepy...


@ Invictus...Not so sure about that....
http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2013/09/29/new-ways-employer-spy/

It's bad enough I have to wear my bloomers when I'm trying on jeans...Now I can't tell the boss to go f u c k himself when I'm in the pisser....That's creepy....

InvictusV's photo
Fri 02/07/14 09:28 AM




would you accept a job that required you wear one?

No way
Why don't they make something useful like a solar powered vibrator


lol, I find it creepy too

but, I think, it would be a matter of the pay for me

a low paying wage with that type of restriction,, no way

a high paying job? 20 or more per hour, I could grin and bare it....



:thumbsup: I hear that...The hard workers will vote reasonable, slackers will cry creepy...


@ Invictus...Not so sure about that....
http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2013/09/29/new-ways-employer-spy/

It's bad enough I have to wear my bloomers when I'm trying on jeans...Now I can't tell the boss to go f u c k himself when I'm in the pisser....That's creepy....


That article mostly deals with the use of company owned property.

No one wants their computers or internet service being used for something that could compromise their integrity or create a situation in which they could be held liable for an employees actions.

I am sure if you have wireless internet at home you have it password protected. You don't want someone using your service to do something that can have profound legal implications for you.

An employee is not company property and real time monitoring of their every movement and conversation is not going to increase productivity. It is going to create an environment of hostility and that leads to low morale and even lower productivity.

Managements responsibility is to create an environment that gets the most out of their employees. Happy employees produce more and that is a fact.


willing2's photo
Fri 02/07/14 09:44 AM




would you accept a job that required you wear one?

No way
Why don't they make something useful like a solar powered vibrator


lol, I find it creepy too

but, I think, it would be a matter of the pay for me

a low paying wage with that type of restriction,, no way

a high paying job? 20 or more per hour, I could grin and bare it....



:thumbsup: I hear that...The hard workers will vote reasonable, slackers will cry creepy...


@ Invictus...Not so sure about that....
http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2013/09/29/new-ways-employer-spy/

It's bad enough I have to wear my bloomers when I'm trying on jeans...Now I can't tell the boss to go f u c k himself when I'm in the pisser....That's creepy....

I could see how they would make quite a bulge in them there jeans of yers.



So true, Mr InvictusV.
With the liberal maryjane laws, there should be many more HAPPY workers producing.:wink:

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Fri 02/07/14 09:54 AM





would you accept a job that required you wear one?

No way
Why don't they make something useful like a solar powered vibrator


lol, I find it creepy too

but, I think, it would be a matter of the pay for me

a low paying wage with that type of restriction,, no way

a high paying job? 20 or more per hour, I could grin and bare it....



:thumbsup: I hear that...The hard workers will vote reasonable, slackers will cry creepy...


@ Invictus...Not so sure about that....
http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2013/09/29/new-ways-employer-spy/

It's bad enough I have to wear my bloomers when I'm trying on jeans...Now I can't tell the boss to go f u c k himself when I'm in the pisser....That's creepy....


That article mostly deals with the use of company owned property.

No one wants their computers or internet service being used for something that could compromise their integrity or create a situation in which they could be held liable for an employees actions.

I am sure if you have wireless internet at home you have it password protected. You don't want someone using your service to do something that can have profound legal implications for you.

An employee is not company property and real time monitoring of their every movement and conversation is not going to increase productivity. It is going to create an environment of hostility and that leads to low morale and even lower productivity.

Managements responsibility is to create an environment that gets the most out of their employees. Happy employees produce more and that is a fact.




I know that and you know that....But somebody needs to convince management..Specifically Walmart...:wink:

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Fri 02/07/14 09:57 AM





would you accept a job that required you wear one?

No way
Why don't they make something useful like a solar powered vibrator


lol, I find it creepy too

but, I think, it would be a matter of the pay for me

a low paying wage with that type of restriction,, no way

a high paying job? 20 or more per hour, I could grin and bare it....



:thumbsup: I hear that...The hard workers will vote reasonable, slackers will cry creepy...


@ Invictus...Not so sure about that....
http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2013/09/29/new-ways-employer-spy/

It's bad enough I have to wear my bloomers when I'm trying on jeans...Now I can't tell the boss to go f u c k himself when I'm in the pisser....That's creepy....

I could see how they would make quite a bulge in them there jeans of yers.



So true, Mr InvictusV.
With the liberal maryjane laws, there should be many more HAPPY workers producing.:wink:


I see you've been rummaging in my underwear drawer again...Just make sure you don't stretch them out this time Will....The flowered ones are expensive....:angry:

Lpdon's photo
Sat 02/08/14 02:04 PM


would you accept a job that required you wear one?

No way
Why don't they make something useful like a solar powered vibrator


Me neither, I want an employer who trusts me.

soufiehere's photo
Sat 02/08/14 02:07 PM
Yikes..Big Bother wears a samurai.

willing2's photo
Sat 02/08/14 02:10 PM
And his code name is Hung Chow.

Embarrassing, he wears white pants.

msharmony's photo
Sat 02/08/14 02:10 PM



would you accept a job that required you wear one?

No way
Why don't they make something useful like a solar powered vibrator


Me neither, I want an employer who trusts me.


something we agree on,

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Sat 02/08/14 03:02 PM


would you accept a job that required you wear one?

No way
Why don't they make something useful like a solar powered vibrator


But how would that work when you stick it somewhere the sun don't shine?

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Sat 02/08/14 03:05 PM



would you accept a job that required you wear one?

No way
Why don't they make something useful like a solar powered vibrator


lol, I find it creepy too

but, I think, it would be a matter of the pay for me

a low paying wage with that type of restriction,, no way

a high paying job? 20 or more per hour, I could grin and bare it....


So you have points as to how much you will become a slave based on the amount of slave wages?

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