Comment by cornholio
1 year ago
Not relevant in the context of an employer provided machine that is used only for work related colab and the employee is aware of it.
You can charge for the enterprise features (and get the resources to develop them in the first place) after you reach a critical mass of users.
Controlling your employees' day like that is still not allowed in a lot of places with strong worker rights.
We're talking about a collaboration tool here, and there is no jurisdiction that I know of where employing such tools, even when mandated by the employer, is unlawful; definitely not related to GDPR which is completely out of scope here.
Of course, as any tool can be used for bad things, so if, say, instead of the default sharing of just the development apps, the employee shares his browser, email client or instant messenger which he uses for personal purposes, you could argue it crosses the line into unlawful workplace surveillance, so it becomes a matter of setting correct policies. Sounds to me like an enterprise feature set you could charge for, as complement to the free tier.
As soon as private information (e.g. an email) is opened on that machine, you're in violation of workers rights and gdpr.
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