So often you're sitting in a meeting, you're hearing something, and you're like, 'Am I crazy, or are they contradicting themselves? Did they change the strategy again? Can you believe they just said this thing?' Sounding off to coworkers in DMs feels like both an outlet and validation: 'It's for your mental health, right?'
After being clearly informed that Pinterest would not broadly share information identifying impacted employees, two engineers wrote custom scripts improperly accessing confidential company information to identify the locations and names of all dismissed employees and then shared it more broadly,
Your boss has never had more ways to peer over your shoulder. It's not new for bosses to watch workers, of course - especially on corporate devices. But technology updates that let employers better monitor whether you're in the office, or view texts on employer-owned devices, are giving employers even more control. Employer surveillance has grown because of the rise of remote work, and because of a proliferation of tools that allow for monitoring, a recent report from the US Government Accountability Office found.
