Q. Is this really as harmful as you think?
A. Go to your parents house, your grandparents house etc and look at their Windows PC, look at the installed software in the past year, and try to use the device. Run some antivirus scans. There’s no way this implementation doesn’t end in tears — there’s a reason there’s a trillion dollar security industry, and that most problems revolve around malware and endpoints.
Benefit to my org is getting billers to look for untracked time, which would equate to some percentages of revenue increase in my opinion.
Just need to balance it with security concerns…
enable for roles with more locked down PCs and tasks the companies hope to automate, and disable on more core mission critical IT…