fredag 14 mars 2008

Watching the detectives

This age of unlimited information has brought with it countless possibilities. It is now very easy to monitor anyone that can be monitored and to obtain any possible information about anyone's activities.
I think it is good to be open about what we do at work. In the article Snooping Bosses we are told about bosses snooping on their employees in several inventive ways.

Well, I think the employees have the same right to monitor their employer. It's equally important.

I for instance would not want to work for a company which has values I don't like. It would be good to hear what the boss says when he/she is having lunch or dinner with people from other companies, maybe discussing company policies and other interesting things concerning the future of the employees.

It would also be good for employees to know exactly what's said on company meetings. Everything from the economic status to who wants milk in their coffee.

It is quite often in recent years we have heard of company executives visiting porno clubs and paying for everything with company representation money. It would only benefit the overall morale at the workplace if the employees could monitor such meetings so the bosses don't get in unnecessary trouble. (As we know they afterwards often don't know really where they have been).

The representation meeting money should always be accounted for, and a listing of who paid what should be put up at a message board or something equivalent for everyone to read.

And if the bosses don't like to be monitored? Well, it's kind of funny. It seems that people keen on the idea of spying on other people don't like to be snooped on themselves at all.