Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min

baby_souffle

30 whole minutes?! How generous.

aquir

I mean I would want to do this when I do confidential stuff like HR and Payroll. I would be interested above what level are employees are exempt from this. I don't think Meta wants to train their AI on their own C-Level execs but who knows...it's Meta

polyterative

Sick company environment.

epsteingpt

But the opt outs will, of course, be tracked. Choose to do it and it will go on your performance review.

yabones

The people who created this policy are almost certainly exempt from it.

fnordsensei

Right. Meta’s biggest culture problem is definitely “not enough masculine energy”.

igleria

Surely they can't be serious?

afavour

And who knows who gets to see the tick against your name as "opted out". I get that the money is good but holy hell I don't understand why anyone still works at Meta.

steve-atx-7600

These meta articles make me think of how any tech company - even small startups - can so easily paint a picture of an individual or team performance with a frontier LLM. I use codex myself to remind me what I did over the last 6 months (look over JIRA, GitHub and my own notes) since I have to write a self evaluation. It always comes down to company culture to determine how this info will be used. Meta never struck me as a place I’d like to spend a lot of my life for culture reasons.

majorbugger

The corporate overlords are becoming too benevolent these days! Why not monitor employees' thoughts in real time?

outside1234

I suggest they opt out of the whole 24 hours

scandox

O'Brien turning off the Telescreen. "You can..." "Yes...we are allowed that privilege"

everdrive

I don't work for Meta, but how many more years do I need to work in tech? I'm in my 40s and my kids are young. I've already set up 529s for them, and am paying for some expensive home upgrades. Maybe when that is finished and I've built up a buffer I can switch industries for the last 5-10 years of my working life. Curious if anyone here has any similar plans.

jordemort

This is great, I hope the people at Meta suffer as much as possible while working for them. They should introduce mandatory eyeball sanders next.

crispyambulance

It's always been hard to know the extent of how draconian tracking actually is (IT pros tend to not talk about it much). In the US, there's the expectation that when you use an employer-provided device that any and all activity on it can be fully monitored/recorded and used against the employee for any reason. In practice, however, few people worry about reasonable amounts web-surfing, being on hacker-news or doing life-activities on their work machines. Oh, here I am on hacker-news when I should be working. With AI, this changes significantly since the man can now employ a robot to categorize and finely scrutinize every little thing with the pretext of "training" (to take your job). We will soon have to brace ourselves for an absolute draconian level of tracking.

LucidLynx

I have a serious question to anyone working at Meta and reading this: HOW can you still work at this company!? Why don't you quit this very toxic company, and start working at another place or even on your own? I genuinely don't understand... Let just Meta die!

jryan49

Could anything be more ironic, the employees that work to track every person in the world are now being tracked themselves :)

new_account_104

Similar to the LLM hype, the point of this program is to demonstrate labor's fealty to capital. The message is: Fuck you if you're a software developer. Your skills are irrelevant. You should be grateful that we haven't made conditions even worse.

lionkor

Broken record here to announce that there are countries that have labor laws that protect employees, which you can take an example from or move to.

ProofHouse

Working as a dev at Meta has become like working a call center. Zuck lost the plot.