I wrote about this in December and it's the same now, as it was then: Trust beats invasive employee tracking every time. Focus on outcomes and accountability, instead of badge swipes or snooping metrics. THAT is how organizations can build a culture of effectiveness and responsibility.
But according to Ars Technica, companies are plodding ahead with employer surveillance tech to monitor workers who return from Remote Work. And in some of the most disturbing ways possible.
Under-desk sensors, in particular, have received high-profile backlash, perhaps because they are such an obvious piece of surveillance hardware rather than simply software designed to record work done on company machines
The alternative to building a culture of effectiveness and responsibility is cowardly surveillance, which destroys morale: it causes employees to be performative and inauthentic about their activites and productivity, and such workplace environments will never be a place to do our best work.