A closer look
Imagine a manager who never blinks, never sleeps, and records your every pause or typo. That’s the reality of workplace monitoring algorithms—systems that tally keystrokes, mouse clicks, and idle minutes. While they promise efficiency, they also reduce the rich complexity of human effort into cold numbers. A brilliant worker who thinks carefully may appear ‘lazy’ by the metrics of speed. This raises uneasy questions: should a day’s worth of human creativity be judged by how fast fingers move? In chasing efficiency, we risk shrinking human value into digits, losing sight of the human behind the keystrokes.
