How would you feel about this?

[Astrid]

I would be offended if something like that was ever implemented where I worked. Not all work is done on computers all the time. I know at me work, there are peaks and troughs in work load, hard to make what we do consistent.

I could understand tracking the initial log on and logging of at the end of the day, similar to a time clock system. As that would be handy with payroll and for OH&S. Don't see a need for tracking every moment through the day.

I agree trust your employees and managers, or find another business to handle.

[Rowellen]

I would be very upset. In fact I would probably be searching for a new job straight away. I'm going through something similar where I work at the moment. Not to that extent though. One day I came in & couldn't access my computer. Why? Because my boss had changed my password. In fact, he changed all the passwords for all the computers & all the websites we regularly use. It bugs me that he can just change my passord without me knowing and I can't change it myself. It has also been rumoured that he installed a key-tracking program on an employees computer. Major invasion of privacy IMO. He has blocked access to FB on some employee's computers too. Not on mine yet but if he did I'd be mighty peeved as I can't get much FBing done at home. If I want to use my breaks on FB, why not? I get my work done so not a problem IMO. I've been at my job for over 5 freakin years. If you can't trust me after that long, fire me Since he became my boss, my desire to work productively has dropped through the floor. And yes, I am looking elsewhere

[RhiChiChi]

I would be offended if something like that was ever implemented where I worked. Not all work is done on computers all the time. I know at me work, there are peaks and troughs in work load, hard to make what we do consistent.

I could understand tracking the initial log on and logging of at the end of the day, similar to a time clock system. As that would be handy with payroll and for OH&S. Don't see a need for tracking every moment through the day.

I agree trust your employees and managers, or find another business to handle.

I agree with Astrid. I do alot of manual work, having discussions, meetings etc... that could impact the time spent on my PC. I also do alot of work from home, so not sure how that would be monitored?? I do my work efficiently and I would be peeved if I was impacted b/c I didn't work XZ amount of hours. I can see how employees would 'rort' the system to do be seen as doing more work. I'd look for another job if my work bought something like that in

[fionas]

I used to work in internal communications/organisational development in a highly unionised workforce. That would have gone down like a lead balloon - not just with the unions but with me as an advisor to senior management on what would affect staff morale. Senior management, however, would have wet their pants over it because they like to measure.

We actually did a lot of measuring but it was all fully discussed with the unions and related to tangible outcomes rather than this seemingly random and trivial measure of how many keystrokes are done on the computer. So backward. As examples, we worked out how long it typically took to process an invoice or write a communications plan and from there worked out benchmark output standards ie. how many invoices could be processed in a day, how many communications plans could be written in a week etc. So we measured real outputs rather than trivial stuff like this. We also factored in thinking time for positions where a lot of conceptualisation was required.

There are so much more sophisticated and useful ways of measuring performance and ones that staff will support once they see the benefit.