Opinion | The tech industry is blowing millions of dollars to make work from home into a worker-surveillance dystopia. By edzitron
" product, a virtual reality-based office workspace where you and a bunch of your workmates can recreate the feeling of being in a room and talking. You can see where people are looking, and even see their arms and hands moving, as well as write on a whiteboard in a virtual world, all of which apparently is good for"cohesion" or"collaboration.
It's a truly insidious industry, one that continues to grow its tendrils into the lives of employees.found that over half of employee monitoring tools monitor your keyboard and mouse movements, with three quarters of them measuring your activity in real time, including what websites you're viewing. Nearly half of these tools can take these measurements without you knowing, and a worrying 43.75% of these programs can track your keystrokes.
A great deal of these problems stem from an identity crisis within employment — are we paying for labor, or people's time? When we had people in the office, we had the ability to say"okay, they're present, they look busy," and that played an outsized role in whether we thought someone was good at their job.
In the same way that these dysfunctional companies are demanding people always have their camera on, they may demand that people are always"in their virtual office," a truly bizarre yet inevitable way that people will be judged.
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