The surveillance tech waiting for workers as they return to the office

With the recent push for employees to return to the office, companies increasingly adopt workplace monitoring technologies aimed at curbing time theft and tracking productivity. Major firms like JP Morgan Chase and Amazon are leading the charge after years of successful remote work during the pandemic. This shift is attributed to a slowing economy and the push for AI-driven efficiencies, as CEOs express concerns about managing in-person productivity amidst evolving work environments.

Scan the online brochures of companies who sell workplace monitoring tech and you'd think the average American worker was a renegade poised to take their employer down at the next opportunity.

The expectation amongst CEOs is that's going to eliminate a lot of jobs. A lot of these back-to-work mandates are due to frustration that both of those initiatives are hard to measure or hard to do when we don't know what people are doing at home.

Read at Ars Technica