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This is an ROI on AI story.

AI enables employers to make cases for "low performance" against those who take medical leave or "excessive" leave.

Once they're identified AI can generate a report they don't send enough email, talk enough at meetings, type enough keystrokes etc. to give metrics to a preordained conclusion.

Look long and hard enough and everyone will far short of cherry picked metrics in some way.

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Also a story about rediscovering issues faced by unions. Sometimes seemingly-arbitrary and bureaucratic rules exist because they are old countermeasures developed for sneaky stuff like this. ("Chesterton's Fence" situations.)

It's much easier to say "contract says X" than to get into a difficult game of proving that employers had a nefarious ulterior motive.