Topic: Technology and work ethics - page 4. (Read 829 times)

When you are at work, and you are working at their office, it is sort of makes sense to be under watch, isn't it? They have the right to check if you are working or not. We are not talking about what you are doing during your break time, or the toilets, we are talking about literally just the fact that you are building something in that company and you want to see what the people who build it are making as well.

I understand that sometimes it is not the same thing and you want some privacy but then you go home after work and you are free there. It is your work computer and it's their office, if you do not want to be checked constantly if you are working or not, then go find a freelancer job and do that at home without being watched by anyone.

As long as their work is completed with the targets that have been set and provides satisfaction with what is in their field then in my opinion such monitoring is no longer relevant. On the other hand, if staff are observed carrying out unethical actions or violating work rules and this is supported by poor work results, the company has the right to impose sanctions or dismiss them. So, if you want to return to the final result, if it is positive, but in the middle of work, you commit a violation, the consequence is only limited to an early warning, because the staff is still saved by their satisfactory work.

 We are hyperdomesticating ourselves. Many aspects of our lives have been made easier through various technologies. Only a small fraction of our population would be able to survive without modern tools in the wild. Some of us depend on technology to such an extent that we would just die without modern medicine. Technology has grown on to be our bodily extension which we cannot live without. As much good it is doing to the globe, it is also laying its footprint on us. You may never know what arsenal of weapon you are carrying along unless its effect begins to turn evident. Overall, technology has had a profound impact on society, changing the way we live, work, and interact with each other. While technology has brought many benefits, it is important to carefully consider the potential consequences and work to address any negative impacts it may have.
 One thing that comes to mind is that machines are improving constantly and are becoming more intelligent and efficient, and as we rely on them to do our work, we are required to be decreasingly intelligent ourselves. Imagine when machines will be self-sustaining, self-repairing, self-improving, and self-reproducing ie able to design and build new machines. We won’t even need to be designing, building or coding them. So, through evolution, we might lose our intelligence and simply become consuming, hedonistic creatures. And we may eventually become so unintelligent that we lose the evolution race and become extinct. I suppose this is another version of the belief that “AI will kill mankind”, but in this version AI machines will not retaliate against humans, or do anything directly to exterminate them.

You don't have to use your "main accounts", you need to separate your main accounts for your personal need and secondary accounts for business. So, you don't have to worry your employer and your colleagues disturb your privacy.

If you think it's not enough (because you didn't want your activity gets tracked by CCTV), you sue the company if you can find the laws in your country if it's forbidden to completely track the employees' activities.

The main achievement of technology was that it made absolutely everything easier. It's easy and fast to do hard, complex calculations, it becomes possible to book things from home, it's possible to connect with friends, it's possible to buy things and trade with different parts of the world from your home or office, it's possible to work from your home to a different country. Many things became possible thanks to technology and it accelerated absolutely everything and every process in the world.

It definitely affected work ethics. While modern technology reduces the privacy of workers, it increases the workforce by controlling what they do in the office or factory and it also saves a company from employees stealing things from them. While it affects workers privacy, companies don't care about that and the world favours rich (company owners).

Everything comes with a cost whether it's technology or anything else. Now here the technical aspects have revolutionised the world by their impacts but the point you raised is valid that the privacy is disturbed. The point here is no one cares about your opinion on that to be completely fair with you.

The company owners have been so blunt nowadays because the jobs have decreased and they have a number of people waiting in the queue. They will not bother with any suggestions from the staff until they feel comfortable to apply the recommendations. There are some good examples as well I'm not in a denial to them but that's very rare.

Actually everything that has been arranged in each company is indeed to create something more positive, but everything has a limit and there are some things that are indeed private private that should not be accessed by the company, otherwise all will be pressure for employees and they will definitely look for other places that are more comfortable, because each company has a different way of supervising employees so this depends on the CEO of the company they work for, Most importantly, with the era of increasingly sophisticated technology, we must be able to make the best use of it.

I understand that working environments where the CCTV are installed are places where the managements have doubts about the presentations or work outputs of the workers for where they're in doubts of security outlets.
So on cases like this privacies shouldn't be a priority to the workers but to deliver their jobs cordially without a Contrarily dispute. Your work place is not your home of relaxation of observation your privacies unless the nature of the privacy observant is a term to designated by the organization or company.
That also has made some jonkey workers moderating and comporting themselves knowing that eyes are watching them from afar. So I can say that the applications of cctvs in an organization at where it's required is a grate development.

It's normal to have your offices and any premise of the company to be monitored and have them recorded in CCTV. If you're even going to work remotely, they might ask you to open your webcam and have those tools to have it monitored your productivity and if you're really working at all.

That's a common thing that you'll get to have when you work corporately. If you don't want to get micromanaged by the company, you should start your own start up and have to see on how you will react to protect your company and max out every second that's being spent by your workers.

Having these ways of managing the office and any procedure of the company isn't unethical, this is a common process of any business that you'd see and even in the government offices, they have the same thing.

So you are assuming that it's unethical that the employers are monitoring their employees? Why?
There's no such thing as "worker's privacy". Any individual can have absolute privacy only inside his/her own home. Outside of your home, you can't have absolute privacy. The employees are required to be productive, that's the main reason they are being paid. No employer is going to tolerate employees, who check their FB or IG feeds every five minutes during the 8 hour shift. On the other hand, if the employer uses technology to spy on his employees in order to gather sensitive information about their personal life, this is not just unethical. It is supposed to be illegal as well.

this answers it all. You know, most workers if not monitored wouldn't want to do their jobs and would normally sit back and use office hours for personal gains at the detriment of the jobs they are supposed to be doing. It's true they have thier individual rights to privacy but such right has limitations and one of it major limitations is in instance as this when management has to ensure that her staff is as productive as possible.

Major institutions like banks, warehouse, hospitals etc that mount CCTV cameras in their working environment always let their staffs know that CCTV Camara are in there offices so they can protect sensitive private information that's outside of the companies jurisdiction. Toilets and any convince positions are always left out when installing CCTV cameras and we can only talk about bridge in work ethics when CCTV cameras are mounted in private places like the toilet or dressing room.

I think having access and being able to monitor your employees is not the main concern here but rather the lack of consent. The employees are still entitled to privacy if they wanted to and if they did agree of this kind of set-up then the company has no rights or whatsoever to monitor them secretly.

Yeah and should not be taken as something unethical or the like. Security cameras is one of the investments companies is spending for them to feel safe and comfortable and I know not only companies are doing this but most of us do as well to protect our properties from unknown and suspicious activities within the premises. This is the only way companies can sue or confront employees involved in any form of irregularities in workplaces.
For me there is nothing wrong about that as well unless they do it in an unethical way.

Morality is a set of standards that guide behavior actions and choices. There is no denying that the positive use of technology has improved our social life. The most important thing in modern life is that technology is affecting every sector of every country in the world thereby changing the way of working. Due to the technology there is no need for more monitoring of the workers at the workplace. Through CCTV the company boss can monitor everything from home.

Employee productivity is important for the achievement of organizational goals. Supervision and monitoring of workers have become very necessary because most workers are not willing to work but want to receive wages. Some of them engage in sharp practice such as stealing from the organization because of less supervision. I don't blame organizations for using technology to monitor these workers because it is necessary for high productivity and also the security of the organization.

However, I am against the fixing of secret cameras in offices because it infringes on the right of privacy of the workers. I heard that some organizations go to the extent of fixing cameras in office conveniences/toilets. Some even secretly spy on the homes of these employees thereby invading into private lives. The workers should be aware that they are been monitored and not secretly doing that. The organization should also inform these employees of these monitoring gadgets before they are employed, some people might not take the job if they are aware of the privacy policies of the organization. Monitoring technology is here to stay, we have to learn to live with them forever. Just keep in mind that you don't have privacy if you are working in or using any service from a centralized organization especially if they have your personal information.

If you don't expect good from something or enjoy good things, you have to think about the bad side of things because everything is good with its bad side.  Why you can work very well with security for your success or you can doctor your doctor very easily but in that case your data can be written elsewhere if you don't take proper privacy?  With the modernity that you are now.  As our communication medium and our work or activities are going it seems that our future will be more advanced or enlightened or we may be ignorant because along with the bad our India aspect is also rising.  In that case you have to think of something better because nowadays we find it difficult to discuss the topic online or on our platform.  This is to keep our business keys to our business or our investment through logs with high confidentiality and high security.

The legality and ethical considerations of electronic and video monitoring in the workplace depend on specific privacy laws in your country. However, here's my perspective:

Electronic Monitoring: Monitoring company-owned devices and email accounts is generally acceptable, provided that employees are aware of this practice. This protects company assets and intellectual property. However, employers should avoid monitoring personal devices, even if used for work purposes at times.

Video Monitoring:  CCTV in public workspaces is usually permissible for security purposes. However, surveillance in areas where employees have a reasonable expectation of privacy (e.g., bathrooms, changing rooms) is a serious violation.  Clear notices about video monitoring should be provided, especially in less obvious locations.

Ethically, I believe monitoring can be justified if it focuses on safety, security, and productivity on company-owned devices, as long as there's transparency about its use. The ethical line is crossed when monitoring becomes intrusive, targeting personal devices or private aspects of employees' work life

It's not a breach of privacy and it's the requirement and that's how a business runs, we are not at home as we are at work and it has to be monitored. I think you all will find it little wierd but there are people.who steal food from office, use unauthorised sites from office laptops or at work itself and many more hence these monitoring rules should be there atleast during work hours and I know where you are coming from as people nowadays wants to build some sort of company work culture which is going to fail as we don't go their to make friends as we don't wanna see their face after our log out hence this culture stuff is king to fail.

Personally, I don't see any thing wrong with a company having deeper eyes on their workers to maximize productivity. its not trespassing because it's the companies property that is been kept in check for it to maintain security in it's products.

One thing that has lead to organizations having more to deal with this security issues it the fact that some humans are not to be trusted with any opportunity because they will misuse them and hence cause damage to the organization.

The only case I would have an issue with such action is when it has to do with ones personal life been monitored, if an organization extends their surveillance to ones private life then it's absolutely abnormal and in appropriate. So it's ethical if they are only concern with the work environment not the private life of the employee.

currently I will say that technology has taken over different mechanisms of life on Earth in terms of what you mentioned so far like Industries institutions hospitals and the other different Technologies that enhance a contribution to construction and also make life easier, technology has brought different remedy and different shortcut to make life very easy to anyone so I believe that this life we are leaving we have to understand the impact technology brought to us and the percentages of the contribution and the easier function of technology to mankind