Todd Bishop reports: Is Microsoft taking inspiration from Dwight Schrute these days? It almost seems that way based on a newly surfaced patent application from the Redmond company. The filing describes a computer system that would monitor behavior in the workplace with the goal of stopping bad habits such as co-workers cutting each other off during meetings and bosses…
Category: Workplace
CT: Time is money: DCF looks to shed costs by tracking its employees
Jacqueline Rabe Thomas reports: Following the lead of private and nonprofit businesses, the [Connecticut] Department of Children and Families is considering adding GPS devices to its fleet of 800 vehicles to quash misuse of its vehicles. In her proposal to Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s budget office, DCF Commissioner Joette Katz estimates these GPS devices will save the state nearly $250,000…
French Court of Cassation Sanctions Company for Misuse of a Geolocation Device
On November 3, 2011, the Labor Chamber of the French Court of Cassation (the “Court”) upheld a decision against a company that unlawfully used a geolocation device to track the company car of one of its salesmen. Although the company notified the salesman that a geolocation device would be used to optimize productivity by analyzing…
The Worst Way To Lose A Job
Kashmir Hill writes: Back in 2009, a woman, who we will call Jane Doe, was dating a Maryland college student named Christopher Scott, who we will call a gigantic jerk. Scott “manipulated [Doe] into making a video while they were having sex,” according to a police document via Smoking Gun. He shot it using the camera…