The Rise of Workplace Surveillance

Last week, F.B.I. agents searched an election center in Fulton County, Ga., seizing truckloads of ballots from 2020. The move escalated the investigation into President Trump’s claims of voter fraud in the state after his 2020 defeat in the state.It has since been learned that Tu ...  Show more

Tom Homan, President Trump’s border czar, traveled to Minneapolis a few days ago with a message: the faster local officials cooperate with federal immigration agents, the faster those agents will leave.Hamed Aleaziz and Ernesto Londoño, New York Times reporters, explain why that ...  Show more

When the pandemic disrupted the workforce, showing that lots of jobs can be done remotely and making workers rethink the values they want from their jobs, many people thought it would change the way we work forever. In 2023, a lot of those workers are back in the office and feeli ...  Show more

The Covid-19 pandemic and the ensuing shift to remote work led many employers to begin using software to monitor workers’ productivity. But are these trackers all they're cracked up to be? Today we're joined by senior employment reporter Amanda Ottaway to discuss the downside of ...  Show more

A new Gallup poll shows that half of US workers say they are quiet quitting, a phenomenon in which employees do the bare minimum at work. The key term here is employee engagement which measures involvement at work and enthusiasm employees have about work. Since 2021, employee eng ...  Show more

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