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Originally Posted by Locke
You're not wrong and I dont disagree, but in this instance I think the company is in the wrong here.
You cant force people to sacrifice personal information like this, sight unseen, just because they work for you.
In the end though I think it goes back to punching a time-clock. I'm not going to pretend I have a magic-bullet solution for that but its something that I absolutely loathe. I personally prefer results-based compensation as opposed to hours worked and theres ways that works and ways it doesnt.
But I dont think I'd be comfortable with this either.
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There's no real magic bullet solution. When I was working in payroll the amount of time theft that they were seeing was ludicris. Swipe cards and punch cards don't work with supervision, so it now becomes a matter of hiring more supervisors to walk the floor for example.
Even if you go to productivity tracking through stations, your still probably getting into some pretty evasive practices to track who's doing what when and how good they do it.
Suddenly we're looking at manufacturers following the Amazon model a lot more closely, especially on low skill labor positions.
You'd better be productive every day and following process everyday or your fired.
The question of privacy for biometrics still comes down to what the solution is that they use. Is it stored locally on the time clock, locally on a server or a cloud based solution. Because frankly the first two do remove some of the privacy issues.
If the company had explained this transition better to the employees, then this case dosen't happen.