Opinion: Employer surveillance expanded while you were working at home

People are definitely getting fired, but you may not read about it because people sign something called a Notice of Consequence, where the employer says, "Oh, you will be surveilled” without necessarily telling exactly how. It is used as the premise for firing. — Photo by Dell on Unsplash

The Covid-19 pandemic ushered in an array of new employee-monitoring technologies that most workers haven’t caught up with-from productivity software on phones and computers and GPS trackers to wearable technologies like construction helmets and tools that follow your social-media activity during work hours.

Some are obvious. Even bosses with little tech savvy can get a snapshot of your day by tracking your use of programs like Zoom, Slack, Google Workspace and Microsoft Office, plus logins to corporate terminals.