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by DebtDeflation 2497 days ago
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.
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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?"

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.

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.