Capitalism’s Surveillance Squeeze

http://dollarsandsense.org/blog/2020/05/capitalisms-surveillance-squeeze.html

Quite the warning - especially in the wake of COVID-19 and working remotely -

Technologically enhanced worker surveillance was already pervasive in many workplaces before the pandemic. (Indeed, Charlie Chaplin presciently satirized video surveillance of the workplace in his 1936 masterpiece Modern Times.) But since many workplaces went remote, employers have made enormous new investments in surveillance software. Workers who had previously been exempt from the most intrusive forms of surveillance when in the office are now tracked through their computers at home—and now that the investment has been made there’s no reason to think the software will be turned off even if workers do return to the physical office.