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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I told my nanny we have a camera in the basement and for the rest of the year, she never ever went in there and brought all the toys and every single thing upstairs. We pay a lot of money for extra space that we never use.

I would advise against it. I personally think a camera is to gain trust in your nanny that she would treat your charges when no one is around, since you can not have a camera watching every move 100% of the time. If you disclose, the behavior changes and you don't know what she is doing to the kid when there is no camera.

A lot of nannies will tell you that you must disclose but I think this is their way of "winning" in a power struggle. Many will threaten to quit but the same people also complain about living paycheck to paycheck and needing guaranteed hours and such and I highly doubt that they would quit with no notice on the spot if they found a camera. I think if they were so difficult that they could not work under a camera, they'd have a hard time finding a job too, and they'd take months to find a new job while you'd have a replacement in 2 weeks.

I've worked for a handful of different companies, some very large. All of them had cameras. No one ever disclosed them to me, on HR orientation day or after.

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PP Nanny who recommends cameras to her employers and requires to know if there are cameras.  I don't ask where they are, in fact, I don't want to know (other than keeping the bathrooms free, and that includes line-of-sight to the bathroom door).  I don't want my behavior to change based on where the cameras are.  My issue is when employers tell me that they don't have any and then I find some.  I consider that a breach of trust, and if you can't trust me to be in your house and watching your children while telling me that there's at least one camera somewhere, I don't belong there.

Most businesses have cameras.  So what?  They are on commercial property.  I work in a private home, not a commercial building.  I don't consider it overreaching to ask that I be notified if there are cameras.[/quote]

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