The Wretched Trend of Employee-Monitoring Spyware

Keystrokes and mouse-jiggles aren’t “productivity”

Clive Thompson

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I’ve written a bunch lately about how employee monitoring technology makes workers utterly miserable.

You’ve got truckers working in rolling panopticons — the vehicles bristling with sensors that spy on everything up to the driver’s head-pose, and report it to their…

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Clive Thompson

I write 2X a week on tech, science, culture — and how those collide. Writer at NYT mag/Wired; author, “Coders”. @clive@saturation.social clive@clivethompson.net