In teleworking, confinement gives us its share of emotions every day. The confined - on this subject, read the column last week - has a hard time. This constrained and permanent telework is extremely difficult for some to bear. Particularly for managers who would also make excellent sergeants or constables of the constabulary. Managers at the kepi. How, in fact, to flick employees when they are away? During confinement, managers-cops only have virtual signals that are random enough to monitor their teams: a response to an email, participation in a WhatsApp group, a green sticker synonymous with presence in front of the computer ...
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For the moment, no story has filtered, in the press or on social networks, of managers who have installed cameras in their collaborators or slipped spyware on their smartphones to locate them. But, you never know ... The manager cop is not necessarily a sociopath. He just very, very, very much wants to be absolutely certain that you are not watching a Netflix series or that you are not yet in pajamas, while they are killing themselves. During this period of confinement, it will therefore feed on all the virtual information - all the data - that it will have in its possession to make you better.
At this point, everything depends on the amount of data, whether professional or personal, that you have kindly shared with your N + 1. If you have a hectic life on Instagram or Facebook and you have had the misfortune - and weakness - to become "friends" with your boss on these same networks, you are likely to feel observed ... Magnanimous to yourself , are you planning to block or delete it? Big mistake: your manager-cop will be absolutely certain that you are taking advantage of this confinement to shoot at the flank.
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