In my company our product person was working remotely. For a short stint he was elevated to head of engineering, even though he had absolutely no idea about how engineers work. It was around that time that he presented the idea of a webcam pointed at us with open audio all day, so that he could be in the loop.
We quickly shot down that idea, together with his recommendation to "have trello constantly open in one of our monitors".
During his stint the complete engineering team including me practically evaporated, only one or two people stayed on... He's still going on, as he's friends with the CEO.
This anecdote is probably a bit off topic to the article as this was not for "security", but it goes to show how many people are so open to the idea of cameras to solve their little problems.
The camera bit in that case doesn't seem so bad to me - as long as he'd do it two way, and it was positioned so that it wasn't much different from a "portal" to someones desk, and audio similarly calibrates so he wouldn't hear muted conversations at other peoples desks. From the "trello constantly open" bit it sounds like he had something more excessive in mind though.
In my company our product person was working remotely. For a short stint he was elevated to head of engineering, even though he had absolutely no idea about how engineers work. It was around that time that he presented the idea of a webcam pointed at us with open audio all day, so that he could be in the loop.
We quickly shot down that idea, together with his recommendation to "have trello constantly open in one of our monitors".
During his stint the complete engineering team including me practically evaporated, only one or two people stayed on... He's still going on, as he's friends with the CEO.
This anecdote is probably a bit off topic to the article as this was not for "security", but it goes to show how many people are so open to the idea of cameras to solve their little problems.