About snooping bosses!
Sure, I understand that a boss likes to know what its employees do at work, but if he/she really want's the staff to enjoy their work, they also need some privacy! Of course they need to actually contribute with something creative, and if there are obvious rules to follow and the boss keeps an eye that the work keep going on, there should be no problems.
To focus on one specific point, I would like to discuss where the boss caught one of his/her staff who was reported ill, by travelling somewhere far away. It feels like the boss doesn't trust his/her employees at all. When hireing someone you have to choose someone you trust, don't you? Why else would you like him/her to work for you? A boss as well need to do this judgement, and if the employeed shows another side at work, the boss need to deal with it and make sure it won't happen again. I also wonder why the boss really need to know exactly where you are when you're not at work? In the case above the person might be going to a hospital far away, and I wonder how this actual person might have felt for his/her boss in case of that?
Am I right or am I right? Maybe not!
6 kommentarer:
I couldn't agree with you more, Sara! I think the whole "feeling trusted issue" is often forgotten by employers who want to have full control of what their employees are doing. I know that I can't even think straight when I know that I'm beeing watched (like when the math teacher is walking around in the classroom and trying sneaking a peak at what your doing). I don't even want to think about how it would feel to be watched all the time at work. Maybe bosses that feel the need of controling their employees with heavy surveillance should think about how it would make them feel, having someone watching every step they take.
I agree. Privacy at work is extremely important for working morale. And if a company need to monitor its employees, the company has failed. If I should mention something about surveillance in other areas, it would concern taxicabs and buses etc. where surveillance is a law enforcing tool.
Surveillance at work/school=bad.
Surveillance in public areas= most of the times, good.
Best regards
Tobias Öhman
Hi Sara!
I agree with you to 100%. When you work you need to have some kind of privacy and you even need a Boss who trust on you. But I don't mean it's ok for the employee to surf on the web instead of working. I think it should be enough to have some kind of policy against the computer use, instead of snooping on your employees and that should only be valid when the employees are at work and not on the spare time.
Like you said Sara: If the employee has report that he/she is sick and instead of being at home went to a hospital far away, this is nothing that the Boss should bother about.
Isn't it better that the employee report illness and be home without any salary instead of being at work and do nothing, with salary?
I have one suggestion to the Bosses who snoop on the employees:
Work instead!
I think that you are completely right about the trust. Without feeling trusted at your work, whether it´s surfing the web or the boss going thrue your e-mails, you will not do a good work.
I don´t think that the bosses hire a person that they don´t trust but before they actually starts working it can be quite hard to know how a person reilly is.
I can understand how a boss wants to keep track on his or hers employees, but what should not be forgotten is the fact that when you think that a employee does a good job and takes responsibility, maybe you should stick to that and actually trust them. I myself for example have had to go to work a lot of times even thou I where sick and should have stayed at home. and surprisingly seldom have I been told by the boss to go home instead of doing my job.
Hopefully no manager hiers someone he / she doesn´t trust. But if he/she does that it is either beacuse he/she needs someone to work right now or something is just very wrong with this manager.
Privacy at work is also very important. I do not mean that you should sit and porn surfing or sitting and talking on the phone all day, but more that you should be able to "feel at home" even during working hours. While you're at work should not be so rigid.
The manager who hires a person sould be able to trust the person he/she hires so much that he / she let some privacy for their employees.
/Bea
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