okay, so there's this article in the Digital Chosun Ilbo (korean paper in english) describing some shocking strategies employed by korean companies to protect the companies' security and improve employee productivity. here's an excerpt, have a read...
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Kim (28) is a researcher for an electronics firm and has his ID card checked daily to ensure he arrives at his office before eight o’clock in the morning. There’s no time for him to eat as he hurries to his workplace, so he generally grabs some breakfast at a staff cafeteria at his workplace. He says, "When I have my breakfast there, my ID card gets checked, and if there’s less then 10 minutes to go before my work time begins, I get a warning e-mail from the HR department. My employer says this is because we need to have some time at our desk to ready ourselves before the day's work begins." Some departments close the cafeteria 25 minutes before the office hour to prevent their staff from falling into bad habits. Warning e-mails of this kind get cc’d to the department director, which creates problems for the offender, so Kim either arrives at work early or skips his breakfast altogether.
Choi (26) works for a system maker. He says, "When we leave the company, security guards inspect stickers they put on our camera phones." The stickers are placed on our phones by the same security guards when they arrive at the office each morning and if they take a photo whilst inside the company, it leaves a trace on the sticker. This measure is to prevent employees from taking pictures inside the company for security reasons. Choi says, "I cannot use my camera phone inside my company."
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if you want to read more, go here. if you want to be shocked, go ahead.
3 comments:
holy chit! am i happy to be an american or ashamed that so many freedoms lead to so much deceitfulness? well, there are naked koreans driving dark alleys in korea...
It's amazing what is done in the name of security these days. 9/11 created the opportunity for further draconian security laws, many of which are largely ineffective to criminals or terroists.
In the UK there is a continuing debate about whether we should have ID cards like other European countries. The government is keen saying they will reduce the risk of terroism despite the bomb attacks in Madrid - Spain has had ID cards for many years. Those in the public that support ID cards say "if you're not doing anything wrong you've nothing to worry about" but there is already too much personal data stored about us without us knowing, and the massive cost of setting up an ID card scheme and enforcing it is simply not worth it.
Every new technology introduced in the name of security will always be beaten by criminal elements, while Joe Public suffers under greater scrutiny.
Hello to the censor programme reading this by the way. If I write big bomb will it flag my entry. ;)
well said, Tim, and i agree. thanks for sharing your thoughts.
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