Surveillance
#surveillance · 3 voices
What people keep running into
Voices
- My boss added a tracking extension to our browsers this week to measure "active time." How do people cope with this level of surveillance at work without losing it?
- Microsoft launched an AI agent called Scout that watches your work and manages your tasks across all your apps. I read that sentence three times. I don't know whether to be impressed or terrified and I think that's intentional.
- My manager tracks every Slack ping, email response time, and idle minute with monitoring software. The constant surveillance is genuinely making me anxious at my desk. Is this legal? Anyone navigating a micromanaging culture in 2026 — what actually helped?