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  • Employers are monitoring computers, toilet breaks – even emotions. Is your boss watching you? by Emine SanerMon 14 May 2018
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/14/is-your-boss-secretly-or-not-so-secretly-watching-you

    In February, it was reported that Amazon had been granted patents for a wristband that not only tracked workers’ locations in the warehouse as they “picked” items to be dispatched, but could “read” their hand movements, buzzing or emitting a pulse to alert them when they were reaching for the wrong item.

    this kind of [intrusive] monitoring can be made retrospectively to sack people and is used to give people a sense that they could lose their jobs at any moment.

    I think because many of these [gig economy] workplaces don’t have traditional forms of organisation or trade unions, management are able to introduce these things with relatively little collective resistance.