Court win for worker fired for not keeping webcam on

[kryptqnick]

I'm happy this lawsuit was won. I find it ridiculous that despite the economy moving increasingly to services from industries, we still use basically factory-like system of assessing how much a person works. If you're on a factory and you literally work all the time during your working hours because you're doing something on the supply like or whatever, it's one thing. If you're doing an office job, what should be evaluated is how much work you do (how many emails you answer, how much text you write, how many calls you make per day. Whatever the job is, there should be certain things which a person would be expected to do per day. I've worked an office job a bit and I've seen it myself: what takes me 20 minutes can take someone else an hour. So why should I be working the whole hour if I'm doing the same workload, just faster? There's no reason for that. So I think that we should switch increasingly to more flexible ways of calculating how much a person works, without surveillance and without the requirement to waste time in the office or in front of a pc at home when the work for the day is actually done. So IMO even screen-sharing which the employee was okay with is a bit much. If a person can watch TV shows and manage to do enough work per day at the same time, it should be of no concern to the employer.