Not really. Decent tele-conference platforms can automatically replace your background. I have a corporate-provided background in google meet, for example.
And the people that have to be in office are tracked typically with badge swipes.
Often badges are just for automatic doors, not really connected to any real information / data collection system. Not all companies are data-collecting monsters. The company I work for, as an example, has no badges at all (but has people at the reception).
And if you’re really that determined to work remote and your company doesn’t support it, wouldn’t it be better just to find a company that does rather than sneaking around?
Agree on this.
But the sad truth is that not everybody has all the necessary degrees of freedom to do that.
I might (and I would). But then again, I'm 33, single, no spouse and no kids. I don't have those responsibilities and I can take the risks. People with kids for example would be (understandably) more cautious.
Plus, in the EU, it is unlikely to be legal to use badge-swipe data for attendance tracking (I think this is prevailing opinion rather than legally tested so far).
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Not really. Decent tele-conference platforms can automatically replace your background. I have a corporate-provided background in google meet, for example.
Often badges are just for automatic doors, not really connected to any real information / data collection system. Not all companies are data-collecting monsters. The company I work for, as an example, has no badges at all (but has people at the reception).
Agree on this.
But the sad truth is that not everybody has all the necessary degrees of freedom to do that.
I might (and I would). But then again, I'm 33, single, no spouse and no kids. I don't have those responsibilities and I can take the risks. People with kids for example would be (understandably) more cautious.
Plus, in the EU, it is unlikely to be legal to use badge-swipe data for attendance tracking (I think this is prevailing opinion rather than legally tested so far).