There are a couple of interesting articles in the Gruniad about the rise in the use of AI to monitor those working remotely. It is, of course, counter productive and along with the other anti-worker actions of the current government a further step towards totalitarian control of the workforce.
Ron Hass' article in 2020 - Is your employer monitoring you at home? - was prescient. His article in 2020 - How to Deal With Surreptitious Surveillance by Your Employer (avaible to registered users) - is worth rereading in this context.
Wed 27 Apr 2022 09.30 BST
Zoë Corbyn writes in the Guardian
Computer monitoring software is helping companies spy on their employees to measure their productivity – often without their consent
When the job of a young east coast-based analyst – we’ll call him James – went remote with the pandemic, he didn’t envisage any problems. The company, a large US retailer for which he has been a salaried employee for more than half a decade, provided him with a laptop, and his home became his new office. Part of a team dealing with supply chain issues, the job was a busy one, but never had he been reprimanded for not working hard enough
Also:
Sat 26 Feb 2022 16.00 GMT
John Naughton writes:
Think WFH means your boss isn’t watching you? Think again
Pandemics, as the historian Yuval Noah Harari observed at the beginning of the current one, tend to accelerate history. If you doubt that then think back to, say, January 2020. If you told people then that by April that year major corporations would be insisting that most of their staff worked from home, they would have given you funny looks and checked for the nearest exit. Nobody then had heard of Zoom and something called “video conferencing” was considered either a geeky affectation or the last resort of organisations that could not afford air fares for senior executives to go to Rotterdam or Las Vegas for a one-hour meeting.