#bossware — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #bossware, aggregated by home.social.
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:akkosad: Accenture tells staffers: If you want a promotion, use AI at work
｢ A memo sent to senior staff this week, and reported in the FT, informed them that promotions to top roles at the corporation would necessitate "regular adoption" of AI tooling, and it is tracking usage ｣
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/20/accenture_tells_staffers_want_promotion/
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A third of #UK firms using ‘#bossware’ to monitor #workers’ activity, survey reveals
Research suggests increase in office snooping is a trend that some #managers claim undermines trust with staff and is probably an underestimate, as roughly the same proportion said they don't know what tracking their organisations do.
Many monitoring systems are aimed at preventing insider threats and safeguarding sensitive information as well as detecting productivity dips.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/14/uk-firms-bossware-monitor-workers-activity -
"You mention the manager wants to see if the employee is really working, I mean, is the manager really working if they're just looking at these screenshots [of employees' desktops] all day?"
#JonathanGood, 2025
https://nz-tech-podcast.captivate.fm/episode/exploring-real-time-chemical-sensing-with-scentian-bio
#podcasts #GorillaTechnology #NZTech #BossWare #WorkplaceSurveillance
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CW: Long thread/22
This makes AI-based #bossware subtly different from other forms of #Taylorism, the "scientific management" fad of the early 20th century that saw management consultants choreographing the postures and movements of workers to satisfy the aesthetic fetishes of their employers:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/24/gwb-rumsfeld-monsters/#bossware
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When you're self-employed, everyone is your boss
#Bossware #RingCamera #CCTV #NOLA #PorchPirates #DisciplinaryTechnology
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CW: Long thread/15
The lockdowns saw an explosion in #bossware, technology that monitors your every keystroke, every click, every URL, every file, even the video and audio from the cameras and mics on your devices, whether or not you pay for those devices.
This is the second coming of #Taylorism, the fine-grained, high-handed "scientific" micromanagement of factory workers, transposed to the home, and integrated with sensors that track you down to your eyeballs:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/21/great-taylors-ghost/#solidarity-or-bust
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Surveillance tech in the workplace is a growing concern.
Unions like UTAW, in the UK, have been campaigning to raise awareness of this issue and providing information on what workers can do about it https://utaw.tech/surveillance/what-is-employee-surveillance