Is your boss watching you? The rise of AI surveillance at work – podcast
AI-powered workplace monitoring tools are expanding well beyond basic computer tracking, now capable of generating detailed, minute-by-minute breakdowns of employee activity and productivity. Reporting from the Guardian points to teachers at a firm run by Euan Blair as one example where AI performance rating has been linked to serious worker stress.
Why this matters: Most people accept that employers watch them at work to some degree. AI changes the scale. It is not a manager glancing at output numbers once a week. It is a system that can score everything you do, all day, and flag it automatically. That kind of constant measurement changes how work feels, and the evidence is already showing it causes real harm. Workers have almost no say in how these systems are designed, what they measure, or how the scores are used against them. That gap between employer power and worker visibility is the real problem here.
Who should care: Privacy officers · Cybersecurity · General readers · AI governance · Policy
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