Employee surveillance causes stress and resentment, writes Rana Foroohar. Find out more.
Likewise, low-wage service staff working in restaurants or retail chains often have their lives upended by algorithmic software that co-ordinates their schedules to customer demand, making it difficult to look after children or plan very far in advance. Upper-level white-collar workers have historically enjoyed more humane evaluation methods; but now, thanks to surveillance capitalism, their progress is being tracked minute by minute, too.
Either way, the rise of workplace surveillance represents what Microsoft Corp. chief executive Satya Nadella has called a new “productivity paranoia” on the part of employers. Clearly, the work-from-home trend and many employees’ reluctance to give it up has managers desperately seeking new performance metrics. But digital Taylorism isn’t the way forward, for three reasons.Article content
Second, while there’s no proof these metrics do a good job at gauging productivity, research shows they increase stress and resentment. A recent Brookings Institution blog post on the topic cited a case in which a retail store worker used an office computer to check her personal email and bank account occasionally , and subsequently found out that another employee had seen the information. When she informed her employer, she was fired.
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