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LEADERSHIP – THE HORROR MOVIE
by Karen Ferris
THE BACKSTORY
Back in December 2020, I wrote an article in which I expressed my concern over the increase in the global demand for employee surveillance software to track employee activity.
I referenced June 2020 data from research company TOP10VPN which was scary enough back then.
Global demand for employee monitoring software increased by:
I am a great fan of horror movies and what I am reading, and hearing right now is just like one of them. Of course, the scariest horror movies are the ones whose storylines could actually happen in real life. This one is playing out right now.
It echoes the horrifying scene in the movie “The Strangers – Home Invasion” where the victim asks, “Why are you doing this to us? to which the villains simply respond, “Because you were home.”
Replace “victim” with employee working remotely and “villain’ with employer and the scene is set.