At this point it goes without saying that, on many occasions, while we work we carry out all kinds of jobs online. We are talking about something as common as surfing the Internet, manage our social networks, or visit all kinds of pages. It must be borne in mind that most of these movements leave a mark on our browser, both in our leisure time and during working hours.
In parallel, we use certain applications and platforms also through the Internet to work. Here we refer to all those software solutions that we use to hold virtual meetings with our colleagues, upload files to the cloud, or office applications for group work. But despite all this, we must take into account that our boss can access certain actions that we have carried out online.
With this, what we want to tell you is that the employer can access certain activity records that we have carried out during our working hours. Perhaps some of you think that you have carte blanche during working hours as long as you meet your goals. But in reality this is not the case, since the employer has the right to access certain data collected during working hours. In fact, he can use them to carry out actions that we are sure not going to like and that can have a negative impact on our job.
Do not put your job at risk, this is controlled
In fact, there are certain tools such as those offered by Microsoft or the Slack application, which provide certain data to track productivity. In these lines we are going to focus on four solutions that have become quite common after the pandemic that we have suffered. We refer to software elements that we have used in professional environments on an almost continuous basis such as slack,Microsoft 365, Zoom or the online applications of Google.
What we really want to tell you with this is that our employer can legally monitor certain movements that we make on these platforms. Sometimes this could even put our job at risk. In addition, no knowledge or specialized software is needed to carry out these follow-ups that we are talking about.
- The amount of the emails or messages sent and received.
- The contents attached to these email messages.
- The use of components as important as the camera and microphone.
- The number of meetings in which we have participated making use of these commented tools.
- The duration of the meetings in which we were present.
- The number of files we have saved or uploaded to an online platform during our working hours.
- The content of those files used on the mentioned platforms can also be monitored.
Obviously, based on these measurements that we have told you about, our boss can take the appropriate measures if they don’t finish convincing you. It’s also important to know that Slack can’t measure camera and microphone usage or the number of messages received. Likewise, it does not have a calendar function, so it cannot be tracked either.
