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HR News: Overemployment, North Korean Scammers, and Employee Monitoring with Patrick Richter
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In episode 180, Coffey and Patrick Richter discuss recent HR news items about remote worker fraud and employee monitoring.
They discuss North Korean operatives using stolen identities to infiltrate U.S. companies through remote work positions; the growing trend of "over-employed" individuals secretly working multiple full-time remote jobs; the rise of technology tools like mouse jigglers to deceive employer monitoring systems; the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's recent position that employee-monitoring-software firms are consumer reporting agencies; the importance of proper employment verification and cybersecurity measures for remote workers; the importance of managing remote employee performance rather than simply monitoring activity; legal implications of employee monitoring on personal devices; and the critical role of consistent policy enforcement in remote work environments.
Links to stuff they talked about are on our website at https://goodmorninghr.com/EP180 and include the following topics:
- US claims North Korea put workers in US companies to extort money for weapons
- FBI Warns of Rise in Work-From-Home Scams
- (Don’t) Buy a “mouse jiggler” on Amazon
- Remote Employee Monitoring Software Is the Wrong Solution for Absenteeism
- CFPB warns of workplace tracking technology in US firms
- Consumer Financial Protection Circular 2024-06
- Employee lawsuit accuses Apple of spying on its workers
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About our Guest:
Patrick is an experienced mediator, litigator, and employment attorney with expertise ranging from first chair trial lawyer to advisor on mergers and acquisitions to counselor on the full spectrum of day-to-day HR issues. As an employment lawyer, he has significant experience representing employers and employees with wage & hour issues, class and collective actions, and intellectual property and trade secret issues, including non-disclosure agreements and covenants not to compete—both in the drafting and preparation of