Company offers fully remote work in exchange for 24/7 monitoring of all home network traffic: 'Why would a company even want to bother with this?'

Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor

May 17, 2024 2:00 PM EDT

Something shady this way comes!

Let's preface this with the fact that several folks who work in IT have already deemed this a nightmare in the making. This company thought it would be a good idea to give in to employees' requests for fully remote work, but there was a catch. That catch was that the company would provide all work-from-home employees with a router and a document for them to sign that would permit IT to monitor all of their at-home network traffic 24/7. That's right. We're not even talking about work hours only, though that would still be an invasion of privacy.

The offer of working from home entirely is certainly enticing, but in this case, at what cost? Many folks in the comments section shared their skepticism and feelings that these employers are definitely up to something fishy beyond monitoring their employees' work progress. Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions. For more tales of workplace drama, feel free to take a look at this post about an employee who finally snapped at their manager after constantly having to make them coffee at the end of every shift.