The boundary between workplace and workforce surveillance is dissolving

Evidence

Once an employee is recruited, both workplace and workforce surveillance take over. The line between the two is in fact disappearing, as the workplace becomes any and every site the worker might happen to be at, while being pervasively measured and monitored through continuous streams of data collection and processing. β€” Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 229

Categorization

  • corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim β€” Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 229
  • XREF: connects to: Workplace monitoring has grown more intimate than any past surveillance regime. β€” Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 467; Surveillance is outsourced to unwitting casual laborers in exposed jobs β€” Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia The Business of…, 173; Surveillance capitalism is collapsing the distinction between private and public life β€” Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1504 (+3 more)

Broader Connections