Workplace surveillance is nothing new. Nor is resistance to it. The idea that people needed constant observation if they were to work efficiently goes back to early manufacturing in the early 1900s and the emergence of Taylorism. But since Covid, surveillance has moved from the office into the home. Working …
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Lockdown and its aftermath has led more and more employees to work from home. Many big firms have already said they won’t even attempt to get back staff back to the office until next year, at the earliest, amid discussions about how working from home could become the new normal …
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