[nabnob]

I'll see if I can dig up the article, but I think they're planning on tracking everything that workers do in their buildings and giving that data to employers.

Edit - found this - https://www.inc.com/betsy-mikel/wework-is-trying-a-creepy-ne...

>WeWork's latest acquisition is a small software company with 24 employees. Euclid is a spatial analytics platform...Euclid's website says the company is "focused on redefining the workplace experience of the future." Translation: optimizing every aspect of the physical workplace so workers are their most productive. Euclid does this by tracking how people move around physical spaces. Its technology can track how many people showed up to a meeting or to that after-work happy hour. The company can see where employees tend to congregate and for how long. It's all done over Wi-Fi.

[DebtDeflation]

There are a couple of issues with this. It's a well-known effect in management theory that workers behave differently when they know they're being observed. Also, presumably most of their tenants employ knowledge workers not factory floor workers, and so data about how often they go to the bathroom or how many steps they take in an hour is probably a lot less relevant than tracking what they're doing on their computers.

[theflyinghorse]

I can just imagine a bunch of managers attempting to "optimize" their employees once given the power to do so!

"Jane, I noticed you don't stay late after work, why is that?" "Mike, I see you sometimes go off company's wifi, why is that?"

[nabnob]

Yeah, I don't think this is an effective way to improve worker productivity, and I think it would also be pretty demoralizing.

With that said, there's already companies that track workers like this, so I definitely think there's a market for it.

[cosmodisk]

Measuring every single second of how it gets spent- That's idiotic. Knowing that everything you do can be easily checked and measured- sometimes it works miracles.