If body cams get cheaper and cheaper, companies might start asking more people to wear them while working.
E.g.: https://coloradosun.com/2024/07/31/youth-corrections-audio-surveillance/
I could see this for doctors, at restaurants, stores,, etc… eventually.
Are you ready to wear one?
EDIT TO ADD: A few people said this wouldn’t ever make sense for doctors (privacy laws) or for fixed locations (stores). I should have thought of that.
But what about Uber / bus drivers, or repair people who go into homes? I can imagine a large corporation thinking a cam is a good idea, for their own CYA (not for the customers’ or the employees’).
Also I don’t like this idea either, to be clear. I was mostly playing devil’s advocate here to see what you all think. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Pretty much what I expected, tbh
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I don’t think it’s going to happen that way. Body cams are needed if you want to record people working in the field, such as police officers, but for people working at a fixed location, an office or factory or what have you, CCTV cameras are cheaper, less intrusive, and harder for a bad actor to screw with by “accidentally” covering their lens or forgetting to turn their unit on.
In the jobs I work at, no, I wouldn’t. Body cams would only be used to snitch on people. It makes sense for surveillance to be used over people in positions of power like cops, doctors, prison guards, etc, who are known for abusing their power. Not against ordinary people or members of the public though. If retail workers wear bodycams, it’s to snitch on shoplifters. If teachers wear bodycams it’d compromise kids who approach them to tell them something in confidence. Etc.
If I got paid double to wear one, sure. Other than that, no.
Absolutely not. I like my current job, but if body cams became mandatory, I’d quit. I’d get ready to leave if they were ever even “tested” at another location.
Absolutely not, as that would mean my company violates my country’s privacy laws. In my field of work there is no valid reason for wearing a body cam.
are you ready to wear one?
I’m ready to make anelton john style jacket full of infrared leds
What’s stopping you?
I fucking love this idea!!!
There are things that I do where a body cam would be useful, but I wouldn’t wear it for office work.
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I would absolutely, categorically, stop doing business wherever I see employees wearing bodycams.
Absolutely not. You can justify it with whatever reasoning you want, but it would be used against employees far more than it helps employees.
Preach. It wasn’t body cams but our company gave us all mandatory phones with custom location tracking software on them. It was done as part of their pandemic response. The phones were supposedly only tracking your location within a mile of the site and were only used for enforcing social distancing and infection tracking. Well when the return to office mandates came around, upper management was suddenly too informed about how much time we spent onsite. They swore up and down it wasn’t the phones and went to pretty absurd lengths to find some other metric to prove it.
If I had to deal with that, the phone would be in a faraday box with a router that connected to a VPN that cycled servers every 24hrs.
Every day they would think I was in a different country.
No. Mine isn’t the sort of job where bad interactions with customer happen. Everyone is white collar for the most part and the aggression comes in a written contract with a gaggle of lawyers reading every word.
Hell no. That would turn anything other than unflinching obsequiousness towards obnoxious clients and potential fraudsters into a firing offense. Specially in the already dystopian US job market.
Hell no, cops however should have less control over the cameras they wear.
But what about […] repair people who go into homes
As someone who would be paying for their services, hell no they aren’t bringing their camera into my home.
The ticket checkers (or whatever they are called) wear them here. I guess primarily for their own safety because people can get really mad at them.
