Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬<p>Your <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/boss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>boss</span></a> is watching<br>Monitoring technology is increasing the power imbalance between <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/companies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>companies</span></a> and <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/workers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workers</span></a>. Protections lag far behind.<br>A study conducted in 2021, when the covid-19 pandemic had greatly increased the number of people working from home, revealed that almost 80% of companies surveyed were monitoring their remote or hybrid workers. <br><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/24/1111664/worker-monitoring-employee-surveillance/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">technologyreview.com/2025/02/2</span><span class="invisible">4/1111664/worker-monitoring-employee-surveillance/</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/surveilance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surveilance</span></a></p>