The incident

Mobile phone positioning feels like being "spied on"

Cai Fang (a pseudonym) is an employee of Dish Story, and at the end of June 2012, she was told by the company that her cell phone would be equipped with a positioning function so that the company could control her whereabouts at any time. The company is in control of her whereabouts at all times. At that time, the employee who was asked to activate the positioning function received a message asking the employee to confirm whether he or she agreed. If any employee did not agree, the company verbally stipulated a deduction of $500. It is reported that, like her, "enjoy" the company's positioning services of more than 10 employees, for fear of losing their jobs, she reluctantly accepted.

In Cai Fang's cell phone, there is a message: Dear customer, you voluntarily authorize the Jiangxi Provincial Cuisine Story Catering Development Co., Ltd. to provide you with location services, agree to send Y to ×××××××××××, do not agree to send N. For this text message, some employees simply do not reply to the text message, and some explicitly said that they do not agree with the opening of the opening of the only a small number of employees agreed to open.

Employees who refused to open said that the company introduced such a regulatory model, meaning that the company simply does not trust the employees, besides, it is a violation of their privacy, cell phone positioning like a tracker, every day to monitor their own. Cai Fang said, but in order to not be smashed, she can only watch the phone "monitoring" themselves.

Effective management and infringement of rights

But in the "dish story" party, this is only for the sake of the work needs, not to monitor the staff, not to mention the existence of infringement of employees.

Jiangxi "dishes story" office director Cheng explained this, the company *** more than a dozen employees in the trial of the positioning service, these employees are mainly branches of the store manager 6, 6 ~ 7 chef as well as the office of the staff, the company did so in order to facilitate the mastery of the whereabouts of the staff. Before using the service, some employees were late for work because they slept in. In the past, they would explain that they had something to do, and there was a lot of tardiness. Since the application of the service, this problem basically does not exist. Of course, the service is available from 0900 to 2100 hours. The rest of the time, the company will not and do not have to staff cell phone positioning. This time is the company's working hours, and since it is during working hours, there is no question of violating the employee's right to privacy.

But some of the employees whose cell phones are positioned believe that the company says it is only during working hours that cell phones are positioned, but the company requires that they be turned on 24 hours a day, so that it is inevitable that they will not be positioned by people with ulterior motives outside of work.

At the end of July 2012, a reporter from the New Law Journal went to the operator's service outlets to inquire about the positioning service as a customer and was told that individuals could not open the service, and that only the company or group customers could handle it. If an employee wants to cancel the positioning service, the employee's company or group must agree, otherwise, the cell phone user who is positioned personally can not be canceled.

Progress

Company to stop the staff cell phone positioning

December 26, 2012, the new legal newspaper reporter learned from the Cai Fang, since the newspaper reported out, caused the "dish story" attention.

The relevant person in charge of "Dish Story" repeatedly said at the beginning that they would only locate the cell phones of their employees during working hours, and would not and were not allowed to locate their employees during the rest of the time. "Despite this statement, but we are still not assured, still fearful." Cai Fang said that later, she learned that because the employees have been disgusted with the cell phone positioning, the company considered that this is not a long-term solution, so it stopped the cell phone positioning of employees. "Over the past few months, from the time I went to work, the company really did not locate us, the store manager as well as the head chef." The "dish story" party said, after more than a month of cell phone positioning test, feel that this way, although it can improve the company's management efficiency, but will inevitably cause resentment of employees, consider again and again, the company decided to stop some of the employees for cell phone positioning, for this reason, they canceled with the cooperation of the cell phone network operators, in order to The company has decided to stop using cell phone positioning for some of its employees.