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I have often wondered about the fad of EVERYTHING being connected on line.I've been attending a conference and haven't paid much attention to work. I'll have to see if anything showed up in my mail box.
I missed out on the last few rounds of packages.
Then again, the conference I'm attending is dealing with stuff like this...
"A Casino's Database Was Hacked Through A Smart Fish Tank Thermometer" https://interestingengineering.com/...-hacked-through-a-smart-fish-tank-thermometer
The Information Security Conference I just attended mentioned the fact that everything is getting more connected... and it is continuing to grow.I have often wondered about the fad of EVERYTHING being connected on line.
Most people, myself included, worked on a company provided computer whether we worked from home or in the office.One family member has been doing the work from home since long before this great hoax. They told me a lot of others lost their job due to the company being able to "see" how much time they spent working, vs how much time they spent playing online. Many who were told they were no longer needed were of course shocked when they were told, you spent too much time screwing around on the clock. They are working on a Company owned machine, logged into the Co. site, and they act like they are shocked someone was keeping track of how much actual work they did.
They used to warn us about "playing" while at work. Almost everyone does anyway. I always avoided it. Use a Chrome book of my own rather than the terminal I am logged into. They long ago stopped even bothering to say anything to the rest though. The thing my one fam member does in Medial billing stuff. They started out doing it in a building. Later decided it was cheaper to just pay them to work at home. They told me for a good while they turned a blind eye to the people logged in and "on the clock" who were not doing much work. After they made sure the system was going to work they started to weed out those who would log in, which puts them on the clock getting paid by the hour, and playing around instead of doing what they were paid for. I am NOT even close to any kind of expert at any of this. When they told me about it I was kind of shocked they allowed it to go on as long as they did before they cracked down. At my job when you are at a terminal its often not being used so playing you are still doing your "work". These people were getting paid by the hour to do work and a lot of them were playing as much as they were working. Then were shocked when told "we no longer need you".Most people, myself included, worked on a company provided computer whether we worked from home or in the office.
Indeed, I don't remember ever working on my own personal computer, except for three jobs; one job where I was the only full time employee, the other two where I was a consultant.
Also, when working from an office, you are usually on the company network. From home you are usually on a VPN connected to the company network. Do you really think that working on a company computer on a company network doesn't let the company know what you are doing on that computer & network??
So, this idea that suddenly an org knows how much you are working because you are using a company computers is an incorrect assertion. There is really no difference. In fact, when I worked from home, I was able to work on a company laptop AND I was able to surf the web on my personal computer that was not connected to the company VPN.
So typically, just the opposite is true; a company does not know what you are doing at home, as easily anyway, as it would in the office. At least not if they are using your computer usage as a metric - which is a poor metric to use.
That said, in my profession (software engineer), the correct metric used is whether we accomplish a given task in the time we estimated it would take, whether it was adding a new feature, fixing a defect, diagnosing an issue, improving performance, etc.
Best practices in a good "agile" team is to keep track of these tasks - the time to accomplish them, what the quality of the code is/was, whether there were any defects in the new/fixed code, etc.
All of that is no harder to do when someone works from home than when they work in the office. It is the communication that is typically more difficult when the team is "distributed".
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It is always funny when you see stuff like this because it seems to be so often the way big places do things.
quote article:Exclusive: Amazon’s attrition costs $8 billion annually according to leaked documents. And it gets worse.
Amazon churns through workers at an astonishing rate, well above industry averages. That staggering attrition now has an estimated financial cost.www.engadget.com
I tend to update/upgrade only when I need to. I bought a MacPro in 2008 and a MBA in 2012.saw that a lot of people are not buying PCs or Laptop now.