The applications have been created to facilitate the user's daily life. In addition, there are many useful tools for the business environment, such as those that allow the management of the team of workers. This is what is proposed by the application Xora (now known as Click Software), with which a manager can know the location of his workers, their journeys, the time spent doing work and other management details of the most productiveBut where does management power and worker privacy begin and end?
This is what former worker Myrna Arias, who was fired after uninstall this application of your company mobile when discovering the capabilities to spy or, at least, the lack of defense of your privacy And it is that, in addition to monitoring the daily work, the application continued to record their activity during the weekend, despite being times when they were not working. Issues that led him to carry out such action and his consequent dismissal.
The application Xora has several management options such as working hours , disabling its features once the day is over.However, the tool continued to monitor the location That is why, after being fired, the former worker has decided to take legal action against the company for violating their privacy and other privacy-related issues, demanding payment of $500,000 for it.
Has the developer company of Xora gone over the top by creating an application that monitors all the time to the worker even though he has finished his day? Has the company gone too far by firing the worker for not wanting to feel watched? Did the employee herself overdo it when uninstalling the company management tool? These are issues that a judge will finally decide, but they raise different questions about ethics, morality and the usefulness of applications and mobile technology.
And it is that not everything goes after productivity and efficiency Even more so when it comes to people's lives. But to what extent are you willing to compromise on privacy for the good of the company? Of course, the management tools are useful and complete, being able to know the speed at which the workers drive, the time they invest in their services when they have to attend to private homes and offering data and complete technical support. But it is people who carry out these services People who sometimes have to stop to go to the bathroom , that do not work like automata and that do not perform the same job in the same way on two different days.
In short, a curious case that could be the first of many. Always taking into account that the user himself defends his privacy instead of launching it to everyone who wants to know about it through the social networksA complex issue that will make more than one reflect.
