Tech companies usually want you to believe technology will improve anything, including managing humans.
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Tech companies usually want you to believe technology will improve anything, including managing humans. That’s not the story we’re witnessing.
Algorithmic management and workplace surveillance can come with very real and harmful consequences, from breach of fundamental rights to job loss. To read about some of those stories, check our website
Examples of algorithmic management abuses | Privacy International
Companies are increasingly tracking their workers and deploying unaccountable algorithms to make major employment decisions over which workers have little or no control or understanding. While gig economy workers, content creators and warehouse operatives are at the sharp end of the algorithmic black-box, opaque and intrusive surveillance practices are embedding themselves across many industries and workplaces. We are monitoring and recording these developments across the world so that we can catalogue harms, identify trends, and help workers know what is happening with their information. You can learn more about our work on algorithmic management and workplace surveillance here.
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