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The Decline of the Rogue Employee: Utilizing Behavioral Trends

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Infosec is a real thing, but this reads downright dystopic. First you find "rogue employees", then you find "poor performers", and then you're in Snow Crash. I'm reminded of Y.T's mom and the time expected of her to read a memo:

   • Less than 10 min.: Time for an employee conference and possible attitude counseling.
   • 10-14 min.: Keep an eye on this employee; may be developing slipshod attitude.
   • 14-15.61 min.: Employee is an efficient worker, may sometimes miss important details.
   • Exactly 15.62 min.: Smartass. Needs attitude counseling.
   • 15.63-16 min.: Asswipe. Not to be trusted.
   • 16-18 min.: Employee is a methodical worker, may sometimes get hung up on minor details.
   • More than 18 min.: Check the security videotape, see just what this employee was up to (e.g., possible unauthorized restroom break).

This is a bad future. Haven't hit the mountainside yet, though. Maybe we should pull up.

This sounds like a sophisticated version of 1984. And it will be pretty cheap once you have the data.

Nothing of interest in this article. Don't waste your time.

Oh, I dunno about that. The really sketchy way employees are regarded, how they're like Soviet agents, is probably worth thinkin' about.

Indeed. It's a short thinly-disguised blogvertisement for an employee-surveillance company.

Even the name of the company sounds ominous and menacing.

I thought this was pretty standard practice for uncovering fraud? At least these are the red flags that auditors look for. One that's not on the list is "never takes vacation" -- if you're involved in a long-running fraud, you always want to be there to manage / misdirect anyone who might be suspicious.

Seems the future will be depressing. First use behavioral trends to find rogue employees, then for slow employees and then probably for any kind of pattern management doesn't like.

It looks bleak for the masses, but very bright for the elite/wealthy.

The amount of control via data/access that the people at the top will have is frightening.

> First use behavioral trends to find rogue employees, then for slow employees and then probably for any kind of pattern management doesn't like.

Not only that, they could use behavior/data to even profile you on if you have medical issues ( illness, pregnancy, mental health issues, etc ) and fire you on the likelihood of any of these scenarios. Hell if they issue you a smartphone that you must have on you everywhere and their system picks up that you visited a cancer specialist or something like that, they could let you go. Hell I heard they might even have urinal cakes now that might predict things like early onset of diabetes, etc and if a chip with proximity sensors are put in it, it might alert HR and they could just let you go.

Companies could monitor their employee movement to see if they went to another company during lunch break for an interview. There has been such a great power shift from the masses to the elite. From the many to the few. And it will only get worse.

And thanks to technology a lot of us are working on this level of surveillance can be done cheaply on a large scale.

According to this, I'm a rogue employee. But instead of sneaking around to steal from the company, I'm trying to get another job. I guess I'll really be rogue then...

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