A third of British companies are using "bossware" technology to monitor staff when they work from home, and it's causing serious trust issues among staff. That's according to a survey of 900 UK managers by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI). Crucially, nearly as many said they didn't know what tracking their employer did, so the figure could well be higher.
"This has the potential to leak sensitive credentials, modify files, or serve as a vector for broader system compromise, placing Cursor users at significant risk from supply chain attacks," Oasis wrote. While Cursor and other AI-powered coding tools like Claude Code and Windsurf have become popular among software developers, the technology is still fraught with bugs. Replit, another AI coding assistant that debuted its newest agent earlier this week, recently deleted a user's entire database.
But AI isn't just another disruption: it's a moment of reinvention. If your company is investing in AI but seeing uneven results, it may not just be a technology problem. While technology may still be evolving in some areas, a challenge also lies in adoption. In many organizations, that breakdown happens along the lines of hierarchy, trust, and communication, not just code or capability. This is HR's opportunity to lead the transformation.