#Capitalism #WageSlavery #Surveillance #WorkplaceSurveillance: "If you ask most people what “workplace surveillance” means, they’ll likely think of security cameras in large warehouses or retail stores, making sure employees don’t steal merchandise or fall asleep on the job. The reality is far more pervasive. These days, workplace surveillance certainly means being constantly watched, but it’s not just fish-eye camera lenses doing the recording. Rather, it’s built into the tools employees like Rina use every day to do their jobs, in all manner of industries. For the laptop class, it’s in programs that capture their keystrokes and allow employers to remotely view the websites they’ve searched on their browser. It’s in handheld scanners used by everyone from warehouse workers to retail clerks to hospital nurses checking into a patient’s room as well as the phone-based apps home health aides must log into and out of with every client they visit. There’s technology that records facial expressions and tone of voice to collect “mood and sentiment analysis” to measure employees’ affect and attitude. And the Black Mirror-esque implications of that monitoring cross socio-economic divides: In white-collar office jobs, it’s combined with AI-powered email and Slack message analysis to assess workplace culture; in offshore call centers, it’s paired with predictive conversation scripts to judge whether employees are responding to customer complaints with appropriate obsequiousness and pep."

https://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_long_shadow_of_workplace_surveillance

New Study: Data Practices and Surveillance in the World of Work - AlgorithmWatch #workplacesurveillance

https://algorithmwatch.org/en/study-data-practices-surveillance-work/

Surveillance in the workplace was found
When Microsoft research did abound
It caused much paranoia
'Midst bosses Satya
What happened next, I won't expound

#workplacesurveillance #microsoftresearch #satyanadella #eu #productivityparanoia #limerick #poetry

http://thenextweb.com/news/workplace-surveillance-in-the-eu-heres-what-you-need-to-know

WSJ nieuws van vandaag over #workplacesurveillance :

"Americans are largely leery of artificial intelligence peering over their shoulder at the workplace to watch for bad behavior, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center, though only a fraction think AI will affect them personally" #privacy #surveillance #US

https://www.wsj.com/articles/americans-wary-of-big-brother-ai-watching-in-the-workplace-86994b4d?mod=djemRiskCompliance

Help, mijn baas is een #algoritme! | De Standaard #AI #workplacesurveillance
https://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20230309_96519813

What's your tech: Have You Been Told? Ontario Employers Must Post Workplace Surveillance Policy https://whatsyourtech.ca/2023/01/31/have-you-been-told-ontario-employers-must-post-workplace-surveillance-policy/ #gaming #tech #workplacesurveillance #electronicmonitoring #CanadianBusiness #dataprotection #technology #Trending #Business #Featured #security #privacy #Canada

Hypothesis: the only reason (a few) businesses are excited about the metaverse as a business tool is because they both a). Have acknowledged the reality that remote work is here to stay, and b). Miss the surveillance provided by physical presence. If the boss can’t count heads and look over your shoulder physically, they will digitally.

#metaverse #RemoteWork #WorkplaceSurveillance

Microsoft Revamps ‘Invasive’ M365 Feature After Privacy Backlash - The Microsoft 365 tool that tracked employee usage of applications like Outlook, Skype and Teams w... https://threatpost.com/microsoft-m365-privacy-backlash/161760/ #workplacesurveillance #productivityscore #microsoftteams #microsoft365 #websecurity #dataprivacy #microsoft #office365 #privacy #outlook #skype