The equivalent of an always-on cockpit voice recorder would be... screen recording all of your digital devices during working hours? And, turn a mic on just to be safe?
I'm a programmer on a team with other programmers, many of us remote.
We're not standing around a water-cooler talking. We're on team chats. We're reply-all'ing to email-chains. We're sharing memes. Half the time we talk across chat when we're sitting in the same room.
These aren't formal design docs or code output [the analogy to flight controls], this is our water-cooler talk, and it can all be subpoenaed in a variety of situations, to be read into court record and taken out of context for the rest of time.
But are all zoom calls required to be archived, specifically in the medical device industry?
Certainly you have the option to make a phone call to a teammate, or walk over to someone if not remote, and say something without any record. Don't you?
Mind you, that is how people mostly work anyway. Even if I generally trust an employer to not be intrusively monitoring my communications, for anything sensitive I'm ideally going to talk in person or failing that, at least go with a personal cell call.
But we aren't talking about how to circumvent monitoring. We're talking about working when your idle socializing (while working) is monitored and logged.
I could deal with it if my laptop did that.
Would you be okay with a recorder being beside your desk at all times? Catching every conversation, even personal ones?
Currently it's your choice to participate in sending memes over email. You also have the choice to walk over and have a private conversation.