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I work in an environment where everything can be measured: emails sent, calls answered, CRM cases resolved, SMS sent and so on. I can even see if anyone went to the toilet at a particular time. And I simply ignore half of it. The jobs that are being monitored are already bad enough: monotonous, repetitive,and etc. And tbh, by ignoring half of all these metrics,I somehow have almost issue free workforce, as opposed to the other department that follows it by letter. Let's be efficient but let's not go completely crazy either.


Raises the question: do you ever wonder whether your monitoring of the employees will someday, itself, start to get monitored?


“See how easily our technologies turn on us? The more power you think you have, the more quickly it slips from your grasp.“

- Tracer Tong, Deus Ex

The older I get, the more prophetic that quote becomes.




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