Hi all, I have been trying this app Rize for productivity (https://rize.io/) on my personal laptop and now thinking of installing it for work laptop to track my time during the workdays. It records all my activities, including URLs to the sites I visit to "intelligently" figure out how much time I spend on coding/meeting/etc... But I'm not sure if it would be a risk to company privacy. I want to ask here first because I assume asking IT/HR this, they would just go the safe way and say I can't use it. Anyone has an idea? Really appreciate it! #workplace #officelife #privacy
Why do you want someone to collect all your data throughout the day? Can’t you manage your productivity yourself?
I don't want someone collecting all data but that's necessary to have proper measurement where I spend my time and how I can improve my productivity. Doesn't mean I'm not productive, keyword: improve != manage.
You need company approval to install third-party tracking software on their equipment. Most employers won’t agree to the following ToS terms: Service Data Ownership. Rize expends significant resources gathering, assembling, and compiling the Service Data and such Service Data constitutes an original compilation protected by US copyright laws. Rize shall retain all right, title and interest to any Service Data created, generated and/or derived from your use of the Services. Rize shall retain the unrestricted right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to utilize such Service Data for any purpose whatsoever, both commercial and non-commercial, without compensation or accounting to you. If Rize does not automatically own any Service Data upon its creation, you hereby assign all right, title and interest in and to such Service Data to Rize. Subscriber Data License. Subscriber hereby grants to Rize a non-exclusive, perpetual, sublicensable, irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide right and license to collect, process, store, host, copy, transmit, display, distribute, disseminate, modify, and create derivative works of any and all Subscriber Data for (a) the purposes of providing the Services, and (b) to perform analytics or other statistical or benchmark analysis on anonymized Service Data at the aggregate level.
Thanks for pointing that out. I definitely overlooked this part. They do have a feature to "redact" all data collected though, so you can clear all the details periodically while keeping the output data (time entry+category). But I think that wouldn't help still for corporate context.