Serious question-is anyone aware of upper management using tracking software to monitor their employees key strokes and emails, pings, etc. how does that work? Do they have to load something into your computer or? What would it be called? Is that even legal?
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Bank of America Infrastructure is not setup to track key strokes of each and every employee of the total 200k population across 43 countries. can you imagine the amount of data and the number of analysts needed to get valuable insights off that data? its impossible for any large scale company. That said they can use Microsoft office delivered tools to get some insights as to the people you work with, general sentiment etc, but nothing more than that. rest easy and dont go crazy , not yet!
It’s legal because you’re either using their computer or your own computer on their secure network. You don’t have to use it if you don’t want to be tracked.
There is no expectation of privacy on any company computer at any company.
There is generally a reason for them to investigate for them to go pull you info. Your manager doesn’t just have general access to it. They would have to have some kind of suspicion and a case be documented for them to receive that information.
LOL... yes we track you by utilizing pings... we also use a small program called traceroute to determine where you are.
Yes. Tracking software is provisioned onto your devices before you receive it. They can see keystrokes, web history, idle time, and screen activity.
So if I am in all day meetings or back to back meetings and my laptop sits idle , I am going to have to explain it away? What if I am doing real work and using paper versus a keyboard ?
I hope they receive my message as I sit at my horrible noisy RTO Open Floor computer typing F.U., F.U., F.U., F.U., F.U., for 8 hours a day.
Some days, just to mess with them, I change it up and type:
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
I expect the call from Mental Wellness team any day now.
They know where they can stick their keystroke tracking!!! :-D
I understand the capability is there and at the company and GIS level they can track, but can a band 4 manager level track his DRs like that?
Is this a job or a cult. Honestly if you can't handle 210k employees than break up the company. The stupidity of this company has become epic. This used to be a good company to work for but all the shareholder value speeches and Brian's wolf pack need to relax. How about this respect your employees first and worry about shareholder second.
Yes. Tracking software is provisioned onto your devices before you receive it. They can see keystrokes, web history, idle time, and screen activity.
We not only record your keystrokes, we do screen recording too. its simple don't do anything not work-related on your computer and don't do anything that you wouldn't want everyone to see.
Crowdstrike.
But we are not worried about you slacking off, we are using it to track cyber attacks.
At least not yet…
Oh totally legal. Remember, you work for them. They own the equipment you use. Therefore, yep - they are within their rights. I’m sure this came up due to the recent firings at bank X and they had every right to let them go as well. It’s a shame because there are so many people that want to work anf there are some abusing it or trying to do bare minimum.
Adding to the above, bear in mind that those persons fired at Wells were hourly, not salaried, employees.
They own the computers and the software. They can do anything they want with their property. Pinging has been around since the 80's, so a login can be detected, as for keystroke stuff, it's all up to their discretion. Just remember your apps on your smartphone know where you drive, what grocery store you go to and if you have a smart watch what your pulse is. There isn't much in the way of anonymity or privacy in the digital world we live in.