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Can they force you to uninstall Spotify and other apps from your work team that the company has provided you?
Is it possible that you are prohibited from downloading or using other apps when you are on business hours?
Spotify is one of the most important companies in the music sector, why are companies so careful with it?
Within the internal regulations of the companies, various points can be found that, considered fair or not, do not fail in terms of what the law stipulates. Federal Labor LawHowever, a question arises: Can an employer force their workers to uninstall Spotify and other apps from their computer or not?
During working hours, it is normal for some employees to seek to distract their attention from the stress that full-time demands. In theory, if a worker can be efficient, even when using this type of entertainment apps, it should not affect too much, however, For some companies and institutions and according to their internal regulations, which the workers have previously accepted, this can represent problems, so it could be strictly prohibited play music on Spotifywatch series on Netflix, use Apple Music or relaxing with TikTok could be grounds for termination.
However, how different would it be to use them during normal hours than just having them downloaded to your computer?
Spotify and entertainment apps
Spotify is one of the main entertainment apps, managing to scale up to unthinkable numbers of subscriptions. At the same time, it has managed to form interesting sponsorships such as the recent one framed in sport marketing with FC Barcelona.
Statista shares that by the end of 2021the number of paid subscribers (half of monthly active users) of Spotify exceeded 180 million around the world for the first time. Likewise, during the same year, the average premium income represented €4.29fact that, even facing the competition, positions it as a leading company within entertainment apps.
Can you be forced to uninstall Spotify and other apps from your work computer?
However, some users of the Twitter social network have wondered if it is possible that your contractor forces you to uninstall an app like Spotify. Who started the discussion was a user called “Fra, the vacancy fairy” who shared a photo where an employer asked his workers to remove said app from their work team, indicating that he did not like the user of Twitter.
This is how the conversation began, with the tweet shared by “Fra, the vacancy fairy”:
Oops, don’t lose your company FOR USING SPOTIFY pic.twitter.com/Tbg2yH2euI
— Fra, the fairy of vacancies ✨✨✨ (@frasalazar) April 22, 2022
However, another trusted user who has shown interest in advising her followers on aspects of Human Resourcescontinued the discussion by assuring that it was not an abuse and that, in fact, the Federal Labor Law does support this request.
This was the answer given by the user “La Milic Dumbledore” about whether they can force you to uninstall Spotify at work:
Here with all the sorrow in the world, the company is right. This can bring you problems. https://t.co/G8kbAUrVy3
– The Military Dumbledore (@la_de_rh) April 22, 2022
It is clear that the “discussion” does not represent a big problem for both content creators who constantly interact in TwitterHowever, the topic that they have touched on is very interesting, since many of us would think that an employer should not be able to demand such a thing, but as the Twitter user mentions:
The Federal Labor Law is clear in this sense, the tools are for exclusive use for the development of work. In this case, streaming services hinder (due to poor quality and the number of users) many of the day’s activities.
Of course, his followers also expressed themselves in this regard, and largely agreed with what Milic said. However, It should be noted that this only applies when you are asked to remove it from the equipment that has been provided to you at work, not with your personal mobile devices.
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