‘You’re Being Watched’: NYT reports that employers now have a tool that tracks an employee’s keyboard activity in order to monitor them minute-by-minute. This “is a more aggressive form of accountability than has been historically normal.”

The Times Reports – warning: paywall. “Employees at UnitedHealth Group can lose out on raises or bonuses if they have low keyboard activity. Some radiologists have scoreboards on their computer screens that compare their “inactivity” time with that of colleagues. In New York, the transit system has told some employees that they can work remotely one day a week if they agree to full-time monitoring.” Fucking ridiculous. Remote workers can’t even relax in their homes anymore, now they have to worry about some mundane activity tracking bullshit on top of their normal work output. This is such an invasive form of power tripping unlike anything else that I’ve seen.