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fromRolling Out
1 week agoMouse jigglers exposed by workplace surveillance
Mouse jigglers, intended to simulate activity, are leading to employee terminations as companies enhance surveillance technology to detect deception.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks agoKeyboard jamming: the sneaky way to make your boss think you're working from home
Employees use keyboard jamming techniques to appear active while working from home, but employers are deploying advanced monitoring tools that detect actual work rather than just keyboard activity, leading to numerous dismissals across organizations including police forces.
fromThe Nation
3 months agoThe EEOC Is Now Letting Workplace Discrimination Stand
In August of 2022, just after Prime Day, Leah Cross started working as an Amazon delivery driver in Colorado. She took the job because she had long heard that it was a decent and paid well. She thought it would be a way to get her foot in with a reputable company that offered good benefits. But in the end, "It was kind of the complete opposite of my experience there," she said.
US news
fromTheregister
5 months agoMeasuring Copilot usage reveals Microsoft's desperation
The quantum theory of management includes an analogy for the physical law of the observer effect, where observing a system changes its state. When you make a metric a target, it is not useful as a metric. Instead of reflecting whatever underlying behavior it was intended to measure, the metric becomes a measure of how well the benchmark is being gamed.
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Privacy professionals
fromwww.theguardian.com
6 months agoFrom location to keystrokes, Australian workers' data is being gathered by employers with little privacy protection
Employers, including Commonwealth Bank, use mandatory mobile apps that collect employees' location and device data with limited transparency and weak privacy protections.
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