Welcome to the era of the hyper-surveilled office
Welcome to the era of the hyper-surveilled office
 May 14th 2022BOSSES HAVE always kept tabs on their workers. After all, part of any manager’s job is to ensure that underlings are earning their keep, not shirking and definitely not pilfering. Workplaces have long been monitored, by inspectors, CCTV cameras and more recently all manner of sensors, to check how many widgets individual workers are assembling or whether anyone is dipping too liberally into the petty-cash box. In the past few years, however, and especially as the pandemic has forced work from the controlled enclosure of the corporate office to the wilderness of the kitchen table, both the scope and scale of corporate surveillance have ballooned.This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Big Brotherly boss”Business May 14th 2022Tech bubbles are bursting all over the placeCoupang’s high hopes of overcoming high hurdlesChina’s zero-covid industrial complexWelcome to the era of the hyper-surveilled officeThe woolliest words in businessActivist investors are becoming tamerFrom the May 14th 2022 editionDiscover stories from this section and more in the list of contentsExplore the editionReuse this content