This is my absolute first blog contribution to my absolute first blog! I’ve never thought about starting one before. Considering the majority of blogs are, according to me, really uninteresting.
But this first episode won’t be about uninteresting blogging. (because now it feels kind of exciting to have started one) No. To initiate my blog I will talk about an article I’ve read about snooping bosses. It’s an article about employers spying on employees and monitoring their behaviours. Spying is morally wrong! I’ve could have stopped there, but is spying on someone still wrong if the victim is doing something wrong, or even illegal. When you put it in perspective it’s hard to decide if the spying was the right thing to do. Some examples in the article are about people getting busted for quite serious matters. An employee spending working hours on Facebook is not something that the boss shouldn’t turn a blind eye to. As an employee you have a requirement to follow the working agreement and make progress in the daily job and make an asset to your company. If you’re not comfortable with that then maybe you should find yourself another job. If I caught one of my employees wasting working time, I’m not sure if I could trust that person taking responsibility for his work.
On the other hand the integrity of one person must be protected as well. Everybody has the right to freedom and the boss has absolutely no business of spying on your personal life. The greatest achievement as boss is to gain trust in your fellow co-workers without all this spying procedure.
