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The resignation trend analysis product of Sangfor Technology Co., Ltd. (commonly known as Sangfor) recently attracted a lot of attention on social media platforms. According to information released by netizens, the behavioral cognitive system product developed by Sangfor can analyze and score the resignation tendency of company employees. The evaluation terms include "high risk", "suspected", "abnormal", etc. Subsequently, attention was paid to the fact that this product collected and used employees' online data, which led to discussions about whether employees' personal information and personal behaviors were infringed.
So far, Sangfor has not made any public statement on this matter. According to the Daily Economic News, Sangfor Board Secretary Jiang Wenguang stated that this system only detects desktop computers and the company’s internal network, and will not monitor employees’ behavior on the mobile Internet. It is understood that the behavioral cognitive system can no longer be found on the Sangfor website.
Nandu reporters compiled information from Sangfor’s official website and found that the data information introduced by Sangfor’s personal behavior recognition system comes from Sangfor’s online behavior management system, and a patent right of Sangfor shows that the information obtained from resignation analysis includes Employee dating software and Baidu search engine, etc.
Previously, the issue of where the boundaries of intranet monitoring of relevant companies are has been concerned. Regarding the products developed by Sangfor and controlled by obtaining employee online behavior management data, a lawyer told reporters that the company has no right to authorize a third party to query their online information without the authorization of employees. As far as the company is concerned, , without the employee’s authorization, it is suspected of infringement of the employee’s personal information and privacy. As a tool developer, Sangfor is also a party to the infringement if it can also load relevant online information of employees.
Some netizens previously published an article on a social media service platform saying: Sangfor’s system for supervising employees’ personal behavior analyzes each person’s tendency to resign, and displays the results of each employee in a unit of a company with pictures. Resignation risk and reporting information.
The information shows that an employee browsed the job search website 23 times; chatted with 254 keywords; searched for 0 keywords; and submitted resumes 9 times. It must be pointed out that in the actual resume submission behavior shown on the employee's resignation analysis report page, the delivery time was September 21, 2017.
The official name of Sangfor’s employee behavior monitoring system as mentioned by the aforementioned netizens is: Behavioral Cognition System. The resignation tendency analysis function is one of the services provided by the Behavioral Cognition System product. In addition, , also includes log center, broadband network analysis, etc.
Because the data introduced in the resignation tendency analysis include website visits, WeChat chat records, etc., once this happened, it caused many netizens to discuss network information security and privacy violations on social media platforms.
An outstanding person in the field of administrative human resources management believes that apart from the issue of whether it violates regulations, the original intention of the product (system) is good, but the practice has some issues that are questionable, and the impact on people will Management methods are overly stereotyped. As a manager, you have the obligation to pay attention to team trends and staff mentality, including whether there is a tendency to resign, and you should actively detect this through lean management. At the same time, the person stated that (the company) must clearly understand the relationship between employees and the company.
So far, Sangfor has not made a public statement on this matter. According to the Daily Economic News, Jiang Wenguang, secretary of the Sangfor Board of Directors, said in an interview that he was not concerned about this matter (cannot find it), but the behavioral cognitive system BA has not been launched recently. Work efficiency analysis and resignation tendency analysis are all It is a function of the product. The company does not detect whose data it is. This is also the behavior of the customer itself.
Jiang Wenguang emphasized that the analysis of resignation tendencies that has received strong external response recently is a minor role in Sangfor products. The core of the behavioral cognitive system is the tracking and analysis of leaks to help municipal and enterprise users solve some internal risks. . Moreover, this system only detects desktop computers and the company's intranet, and cannot easily monitor employees' personal behavior on the mobile Internet.