So I work as a lawyer in a litigation law firm. My boss/a sr. Advocate raised hue and cry about the fact that lawyers say that they're busy in court and take breaks after their court matter before reporting back to the firm.
He's like the solution to this would be location tracking (EUREKA! ) So he suggested life360, an app he uses for his children as well. Call me a genz employee but I was ready to point blank state that “I'm not okay with this” right to his face. But I soon noticed that all other employees were classic asslickers who responded, “this is so interesting”, etc etc and actually got themselves logged on the app.
Tbh, i did download the app but then did not give adequate permissions. While I was constantly being nagged by my boss and a bitchy colleague to allow permissions, I stated that I'll figure it out and got busy with work.
He literally almost bought the premium version and even started to look into apple find my phone and samsung tracking etc.
While I still spoke about data breaches that such tracking softwares are infamous for he is still adamant about device tracking.
I find this SO SO SO wrong. They should rather focus on timely payment of wages
He reiterated that if the location goes off there will be monetary fines and what not. I am so annoyed today. How do bosses not realise what boundaries are?!
Edit: everyone here is saying that if the work provides me with a device the tracking is somehow justified, however, i find the tracking wrong, period. We're goddamn adults here. Work is getting done in time. There is no way I'm evading work by lying here, in fact no one in my workplace is doing that. If you don't trust your employees, that's your problem. Refine your hiring process.
Edit: it is a personal phone
Edit: i come under Indian laws, here employee regulations are flimsy at best and a lot of malpractices are looked over. I think with growing urbanization, employee rules will be refined but until then, we suffer YIKES