The Workplace-Surveillance Technology Boom: In The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Shoshana Zuboff
says the workplace is “where invasive technologies are normalized among
captive populations of employees.” Despite this, employers have largely
escaped scrutiny for their extensive monitoring practices from both
experts and workers themselves.
Since the start of the pandemic, many companies have begun to even more aggressively
track their workers’ productivity, and as workplaces start to open
again, it is likely that the scale and types of data collected by
employers will continue to increase to combat the threat of COVID-19.
