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if they put it in a contract and you agree to it then fair is fair(name that movie), but it should be highly regulated. some people have to do a lot worse to keep their jobs, so if you want a job bad enough and thats a requirment then thats what you get.....it's capitalism baby, "it's my company and i can do what-ever th 4ell i want"

I think some of the responses are due to lowering of work ethic. Every company has a right to know if you are sitting in a restaurant for half the day or on the road doing your job, why not? After work hours, turn off the phone. It has to be a company provided phone for them to track you.
Production would go up if everyone knew they had to perform or be canned.

I think it depends on the industry - they say in the software development industry, the one thing which returns the highest ROI in terms of worker productivity is their happiness, meaning they just plain produce better code.

This is why the Google offices have all the fricking bells and whistles

I'm so torn on this one. As a business owner, I can see the value, but I can also see the issue of IofP. However, if the phones are company provided phones that have the ability to have the GPS turned off after hours, than I would say that there is nothing wrong with that.

What is the difference between that, and a boss calling or swinging by to "check up" on you?

I reiterate that tracking after hours, has some serious implications to it, so it is definitely a difficult scenario to fully judge unless one knew the parameters.

Company time - companies should be able to protect their assets - some truck drivers even have video cameras mounted inside their cabs!? (seriously)

More and more employees are doing less and less and expecting to get paid more. If that is what it takes to for some accountability in their employees - then, go for it. As far as invasion of privacy - that is a mute point because it is not your time if you are the employee. When you sell yourself to an employee for a wage in exchange for a service over a particular time frame - what was once your time, now belongs to them (the employee). It is no longer your and until you are off the clock you don't have the right to do what ever you want, or go where ever you feel like going. If employees can't be responsible on their own then the employer must take measures that will either restrict movement, or enforce accountability - that is just business.

I think if more people did their job instead of cheating on hours and slacking off at work employers wouldn't even be considering such things. I worked with people who spent the whole day on the internet while I worked and took 2 and 3 hour lunches to boot.