The Washington Post reports companies have begun surveilling employees and their productivity as they work from home during the COVID-19 outbreak. In addition to monitoring programs for determining employees' active work hours and online activities, organizations are also instituting other forms of oversight, including multiple daily check-ins, always-on webcam policies and "productivity scores." The tactics have drawn backlash as David Heinemeier Hansson, co-founder of the remote-work-software firm Basecamp, said organizations can't expect "better, deeper, more creative work by subjecting people to ever harsher measures of surveillance."
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