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Recode Daily

The future of work pt 1

Recode Daily

Recode

Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Because more people are working from home, employers are increasingly using software that monitors much more than just your hours on the clock. Featuring Adam Satariano (@satariano) Pui-Wing Tam (@puiwingtam) Links to resources discussed: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/technology/employee-monitoring-work-from-home-virus.html?referringSource=articleShare Host: Arielle Duhaime-Ross (@adrs), host and lead reporter of Reset About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Nearly 24,000 kids have their identity stolen in 2022.

0:05.0

In the age of social media and fishing schemes,

0:07.8

it's more important than ever to protect your family's personal data.

0:11.8

Microsoft Defender helps keep your personal information safer online with identity theft

0:17.0

monitoring for the whole family, giving you real-time alerts, expert guidance, and even hands-on restoration support when you need help.

0:26.8

You get personal data plus device protection, all in one easy to use app.

0:33.1

Maximize your protection with Microsoft Defender,

0:36.0

available with a Microsoft 365 personal or family subscription. Adam Satriano is a tech correspondent for the New York Times. He lives in London with his family and like many of us he's had to

0:55.0

adapt to working from home full-time. I have created a makeshift office in my

1:00.3

bedroom. Every morning I pull out this foldable desk from behind a coat hanger thing that I have and set up a laptop and a monitor and you know get a cup of water and all I got the whole thing.

1:15.3

But about a month ago he changed the way he works remotely in a big way. He got

1:21.4

win that because of the pandemic and people now working from home. An increasing

1:26.7

number of companies had started using employee monitoring software.

1:40.3

The technology includes taking screenshots of your computer every few minutes. It includes logging the websites that are visited keyboard tracking, so the words that you are typing,

1:47.6

you can set alerts to that. So if you're typing the word resume or something like that,

1:52.1

it could set an alert to a manager that you might be looking for a job.

1:56.0

And there's others that include snapping pictures with your front facing camera to basically see that you're at your desk.

2:03.6

There is mapping software that tracks where people are going.

2:11.1

Despite knowing all that, Adam decided to try it out on himself.

2:16.0

And to make the experiment as realistic as possible, Adam also gave his editor

2:21.0

access to the data that the software collected.

2:25.0

But there was one semi serious condition.

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