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Title: Naked Employee, The: How Technology Is Compromising Workplace Privacy by Frederick S. Lane ISBN: 0-8144-7149-8 Publisher: AMACOM Pub. Date: May, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Big Brother in the 21st century
Comment: A few months ago, I applied for an adjunct position -- teaching one course, online from my home computer. To my amazement, the private "alternative" university demanded a background check. I said thanks but no thanks -- and only now do I understand what happened.
Lane, author of Naked Employee, explains that companies fear risks associated with loose cannon employees, although he doesn't use those words. They risk embarrassment, lawsuits and more. And now, when it's so easy to order background checks, why take those risks?
If you resist, says Lane, prospective employers won't think you're principled; they'll think you're hiding something. After all, background checks revealed that fifty percent of resumes submitted to a major search firm included falsified information, ranging from imaginary degrees to exaggerated responsibilities.
Once you're hired, you can be subjected to physical exams and ongoing surveillance. Lane reviews the relative invasiveness of hair, blood and urine tests. Uniforms can be equipped with devices to prevent theft and track your whereabouts. Personal phone calls can be monitored long enough to discover they're personal -- a good two to three minutes.
As I read this book, I grew more and more horrified. Lane stays focused on what's happening today, only briefly suggesting ways to frame the problem on a broader scale. For instance, at the very end of the book, he notes that providing health insurance gives employers a solid basis for questioning employee lifestyles, on and off the job.
In a much earlier book, JobShift, WIlliam Bridges called for individuals to become independent contractors rather than employees. He argued that separating health insurance from employment would protect our privacy as well as our physical health. A paradigm shift, requiring major changes in infrastructure, would be required to alter our relationship with our employers, careers and jobs.
Thus the employment relationship has become decidedly lopsided. In return for invasion of privacy, the employer offers no long-term guarantees of employment. And in at least one non-traditional "university," the background checks have become a substitute for hiring: the "dean" didn't know anything about what was being taught -- just checked off boxes. I wonder how prevalent this trend has become.
Rating: 5
Summary: Packed with both social analysis and business insights
Comment: Technology has made it easier for employers to monitor and investigate employees' behavior - in turn, affecting morale and productivity. The Naked Employee offers an analysis of how technology is compromising workplace privacy, with chapters covering the social, legal and moral implications of different types of employee monitoring systems. From issues of employee privacy to the nuts and bolts of current investigative surveillance systems, this is packed with both social analysis and business insights.
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Title: Women and Workplace Discrimination: Overcoming Barriers to Gender Equality by Raymond F. Gregory ISBN: 0813531373 Publisher: Rutgers University Press Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Business Statistics on the Web: Find Them Fast-At Little or No Cost by Paula Berinstein, Charles Cotton ISBN: 091096565X Publisher: Cyberage Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Wheel, Deal, and Steal: Deceptive Accounting, Deceitful CEOs, and Ineffective Reforms by Daniel Quinn Mills ISBN: 0131408046 Publisher: Financial Times Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 11 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Edition by University of Chicago Press Staff ISBN: 0226104036 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
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Title: E-Mail Rules: A Business Guide to Managing Policies, Security, and Legal Issues for E-Mail and Digital Communication by Nancy Flynn, Randolph Kahn ISBN: 0814471889 Publisher: AMACOM Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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