Ok cards on the table in a previous life I had an involvement in this type of activity, not any more I should add.
You will have somewhere at some time signed a document to say the company can fo this, how big is the company 🤷🏻♂️ The one I was involved with had over 20 thousand employees thousands of vehicles, in the amongst the many documents you sign you will have given consent for them to fo this.
I don’t know how big your company is but the biggest factor by a massive margin isn’t smart computer algermithams but they are in the mix tracking you, or a secret room with 50 staff transcribing calls like some nineteen 50’s spy film, no biggest factor 🤷🏻♂️ Good old grass, yep people grassing you up some that bloke you like well he doesn’t like you he has rang the company “confidential line” someone outside the company who might not like you rings in, woman at work you made a comment to rings in, you have a company van park somewhere someone isn’t happy about they ring in.
Ok so you get the picture it’s sad trust know one because someone has grassed you up, best info we used to get was from upset ex girl and boy friends wife who had been cheated on.
Now everything you do email, text, vehicle information is recorded and monitored it’s sent through computer software it reads it pick up words phrases, your GPS has hot spots geofencing alerts when you go in certain areas.
I work for a company I have my own car, I only use company phone for work, I leave it at work or at home never take it with me unless for work.
We had complete surveillance on all employees from the moment they they hit out of bed switched on the lap top, the phone, got in the car or van, went to work and used the biometric entry system. Which room did they go in how long on computer how long coffee break how long lunch right down to how long in the loo.
This is a household name company why, lots of legitimate reasons productivity, safety, security, stop people taking the piss and yes to catch them out.
If your punting on work time unless your self employed then be careful, look back at what you signed, everyone in and out of work is a potential grass, as the saying goes “if you can’t do the time don’t do the crime” punt out of work no problem.
Whiles i was in this line of work we caught loads of people wrong side of the line, some guys punting but more affaires lots of women seeing other guys in and out of work, plus the obvious theft stuff and stealing company information.
I had just a couple of staff one of them was brilliant, she would use social media send a friend request get on their other accounts, she knew everything about the person under surveillance in work, every electronic entry logged and mapped, this was more for people stealing than someone seeing brass or as I say meeting a workmate they are having an affair with in the car park of Tesco after work not great in work then that was HR.
Hope that helps
