Dall'Hitachi un sistema per monitorare le comunicazioni degli impiegati
Ha la forma di un tesserino, l'indossano i dipendenti da controllare
Tokyo, al collo il badge spione
Il Grande Fratello arriva in ufficio
AD UN PRIMO sguardo, potrebbe sembrare un normalissimo badge. Uno di quei cartellini identificativi che indossano i dipendenti delle grandi società. Ma l'aspetto inoffensivo non deve ingannare: si tratta, in realtà, di un sofisticato dispositivo elettronico in grado di tracciare le attività di chi lo indossa.
Si chiama Business Microscope, ed è l'ultima invenzione del colosso giapponese Hitachi. Attraverso the collection of position data, is able to monitor employees' interpersonal communication, revealing time and place. Objective, to establish "the strength of relationships within a working group."
The device will be marketed by 2008, but the controversy has already started. For many, in fact, this is a real Big Brother, can detect where and with whom an employee has had a conversation at the top of the company. So, farewell talk in front of the coffee machine. The system could not recognize them as productive.
But the Business Microscope, Hitachi provides, it is not designed to meet the needs of voyeurism master. The purpose of the device, in fact, it is control behavior, but their statistical analysis. And the only sensitive data will be treated the duration and frequency of communication "vis-a-vis" among employees.
"In this way - the Japanese giant said in a statement presentation - should be clarified some of the problems that sometimes arise within an organization. It increases productivity, showing the strength or weakness of the relationship between members of a group working on the same project. "
The Hitachi has also conducted tests to prove the goodness of his statements: Business Scope was applied to 37 employees (presumed consent) of the same company, all employees in the same project.
But if the leaders of the Japanese giant had hoped to find some loafers, were disappointed. The analysis of data provided by Business Scope, in fact, allowed to ascertain that the obstacles in the project were not due to linger and chatter of the employees, but the lack of interaction by the manager. The coffee break, at least for now, is safe.
(June 27, 2007)
link: http://www.repubblica.it/2007/06/sezioni/scienza_e_tecnologia/hitachi-big-brother/hitachi-big-brother/hitachi-big-brother.html
