Recommended Reading: Productivity surveillance

The rise of the worker productivity score Jodi Kantor and Arya Sundaram, The New York Times Imagine if your employer only paid you for the hours you were actively working on your computer. Time spent on the phone, doing tasks on paper or reading isn't part of your compensation since your job can't track those things with monitoring software. It's no far-fetched scenario -- it's already happening. Companies are tracking, recording and ranking employees in the name of efficiently and accountabilit...