bossware
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
boss + -ware, or blend of boss + malware
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Noun[edit]
bossware (uncountable)
- (informal) Software installed on employees' computers for the purpose of allowing a manager to track their working time and activity.
- Our organisation sent us laptops to work from home, but it has some very intrusive bossware installed on it.
- 2020, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Inside the Invasive, Secretive “Bossware” Tracking Workers, While aimed at helping employers, bossware puts workers’ privacy and security at risk by logging every click and keystroke, covertly gathering information for lawsuits, and using other spying features that go far beyond what is necessary and proportionate to manage a workforce.