Posted by imalerba 12 hours ago
Linux is becoming more and more viable for a gaming PC. For business uses a Linux desktop is usable but probably not ideal, but you also have macOS. I'd pick anything but Windows and MS stuff.
Just go to the damn office already!!!
It's about hiring adults, respecting and trusting them to do the job and support the team, and be responsible for their methods. The details are not important to that goal.
If an employer instead treats people like toddlers needing supervision, spoon feeding, and metrics around methods, not work, they will get only that.
A lot of people are coming across as whiny children here, "Oh no I might have to go to the office for my 6-figure paycheck." Grow up and go to work, as George Carlin might say.
I would be chuffed if I see someone present on breaking this at Defcon this year.
There are law's against wage theft.
Both happen quite often, recent ICE events aside.
Turns out words written in a book do not actually constrain physics.
What is this? The medieval ages? You seem to believe laws are mage armor.
Individuals need to grow a spine and not be so kowtowed. This battered wife shit where everyone has to kneel before some rando with an iPhone clipped to their belt is pathetic. Management isn't actually anymore useful to humanity than me, cause like me there's a huge backlog of people who can do managements job.
All I see is frail old, codependent losers who need blue pills to simulate virility.
If you install corporate teams on your personal device, you are part of the problem.
You must request a device for that and never mix personal and professional stuff.
Lazy and fraudulent people destroyed WFH. Should be banned forever. 20% people working, 80% slacking
Yet, when in the office, drinking coffee, watercooler smalltalk and smoking at the entrance is somehow considered work time.
Leave us alone. The output is all that matters.
Of course it does.
I don’t know that we can draw broad conclusions about worker rights on this issue.
My company probably DOES need to know that I’m not taking company information to certain locations like overseas if I work in certain industries like if I am in healthcare covered by HIPAA and I’m handling PHI.
Hyperbolic example, but if I’m taking a teams call or reading my email in North Korea, that is a gigantic problem.
Right to privacy doesn’t exist inside of employer apps and company devices, and there isn’t a strong argument that it should exist.
Of course it doesn't. (What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence).
> "there isn’t a strong argument that it should exist."
Did you google for anything on this topic? Did you set a timer for 5 minutes and spend some time trying hard to think of one? Did you look at other countries and their regulations (e.g. Germany?[1]) and why they ended up that way?
[1] https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/employee-monitoring-in-ger...
How did companies enforce the worker not taking the files with them on their international trip? Just by punishment when it was discovered after the fact. Things worked fine. It was good enough.
There is no need for additional surveillance, just because computers and internet can be used to do it.
Indeed, but the right of an employer to have you carry their device outside of their building also doesn't exist.
Switch to Linux, it's better to ask forgiveness than permission. Say it's a security measure against spyware by malicious and hostile entities online.