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Re:Count the people around you by monitoring wifi signals by __jal on Thursday January 17, 2019 @04:11PM (#18934668)
Metric-driven automated employee tracking is everywhere. If you're a software engineer or similar at a tech company, be aware that you have a very cushy, unmonitored job by most comparisons.

It isn't "just" Amazon warehouse employees and other low-paid folks.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/telegraph-workplace-sen...

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Re:Count the people around you by monitoring wifi signals by burger_moon on Thursday January 17, 2019 @06:18PM (#18935597)
One thing that most people don't realize at big tech companies is how much your time actually is monitored. The amount of tickets you close out, the amount of code reviews you publish, how many code reviews of other employees you're doing. There's a lot of metrics that are not openly discussed but are being tracked and watched to make sure you're performing at the same level as your peers.
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Re:Count the people around you by monitoring wifi signals by politician on Thursday January 17, 2019 @04:41PM (#18934914)
Manna is a short story about the future of metric-driven employment culture.

http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

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Re:Count the people around you by monitoring wifi signals by visarga on Friday January 18, 2019 @12:48PM (#18941137)
That's a great piece of sci-fi.
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