Re: Statistics graph as a separate application

Stefan.Fuhrmann@etas.de wrote:
>
> Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn@gmail.com> wrote on 22.10.2007 20:42:27:
>
> > > * Problems
> > >
> > > - legal restrictions (e.g. Germany)
> >
> > what legal restrictions would there be for such a feature??
>
> German employment law requires that the use of certain tools
> needs formal aggreement from the employees. Such tools are
> all applications / methods that are suitable to monitor the
> productivity of individual employees. The intention is, as I
> understand it, that people won't get rated by unfair metrics.

If that law really exists, it is ignored by all companies I know. I've
worked for a German company for seven years, and they monitored
*everything* they could (ok, they couldn't monitor much because the IT
guys were complete idiots). They even got *very* mad when I told them
about some Swiss laws which forbids certain kind of monitoring and they
had to stop doing that.
AFAIK there's no union for sw developers - and as long as that's the
case, the companies in Germany will ignore those laws.

> TSVN already is in some grey area here: One must not use the
> statistics to check which people "worked less".

Everyone can answer that question easily without looking at the
statistics dialog: it's the manager :)

Stefan

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