You think you have it bad at the office?

Guilty.

I’ve surfed porn at work before. I’ve made numerous personal phone calls on the Boss’ tab . I’ve even made plans to hook-up with a co-worker over company email. Was I worried that someone was watching? Yeah, I guess so. Was it worth it? No question.

We’re told that our supervisors read our emails and know what websites we visit, but do we really believe they’re watching that closely? You’ll occasionally hear about someone getting fired because management read a particularly harmful email, but I think we all assume that those incidents are few and far between.

Not at Hitachi.

It seems they’ve developed a “business microscope” that monitors employees movements around the office, and measures things such as how far you stray from your workspace, and your proximity to other co-workers. “Don’t get too close, or we’ll assume your having sex!!”

The tags also include radiation sensors, sound sensors and a radio communication device.

“The system can be used to clarify the problems within an organization and, thus, reduce the risk in organizational operation, in addition to the improvement of productivity, by quantitatively showing the strength of the relationships among the members of the organization…”  Blah, blah, blah…

I guess that means I won’t be applying at Hitachi anytime soon.

You never know when you might be having one of those days where there’s no way to get around rubbing one out after the hot intern named Erin, with perfect tits and a see-through blouse, walks by your cube and wants to chat.

Not that I would know anything about that.

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