Is it possible to filter a view with a url paramter for a speciffic field without that field actually being displayerd?

for instance, think of a view containing Employee group, Name and Last Name. Say I want to display all the names belonging to certain employee group selected by the user. It is easy to create a URL with the parameter of employee group desired and this way only those names in the desired employee group will show up. The issue is that the employee group has to be displayed for this method to work. If I remove the employee group field from the view columns then the all the records show up.

I have dealt with this for some time but it has bothered me that some times as the user may not be interested to see the field being used to filter the view. I the user selected the parameter then he/she already knows this information, why waste space displaying it?

Any ideas or work around besides creating a hand made view in an HTML page? clearly everything can be done this way but its time consuming and requires more skill.

Thanks

Luis