{"id":2769,"date":"2003-02-07T11:40:44","date_gmt":"2003-02-07T18:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/02\/big-brother-makes-us-sick\/"},"modified":"2003-02-07T11:40:44","modified_gmt":"2003-02-07T18:40:44","slug":"big-brother-makes-us-sick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/07\/big-brother-makes-us-sick\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Brother makes us sick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a title=\"Business 2.0 - Magazine Article - Why Spy?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.business2.com\/articles\/mag\/0,1640,46179,00.html?cnn=yes\">Business 2.0<\/a> points out that the rise in Big Brother snooping on employee e-mail and web surfing has been accompanied by in increase in absenteeism:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>First, while employers have increasingly been taking the Big Brother approach, thanks to software that tracks Internet usage and even lets the boss read a worker&#8217;s e-mails, the proportion of absenteeism attributable to personal needs has also been on the rise &#8212; almost doubling in 2002 to 21 percent. Notice the lesson here: If you don&#8217;t want your people missing work to take care of personal business, maybe it would be better to let them take care of some of that business at work. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The first rule of management is trust, not snoop because you can. Somebody should pass this on to John Chambers.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business 2.0 points out that the rise in Big Brother snooping on employee e-mail and web surfing has been accompanied by in increase in absenteeism: First, while employers have increasingly been taking the Big Brother approach, thanks to software that tracks Internet usage and even lets the boss read a worker&#8217;s e-mails, the proportion of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/07\/big-brother-makes-us-sick\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Big Brother makes us sick&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-IF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}