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For generations, the relationship between an employee and their employer was relatively simple. You arrived at work. You did your job. Your manager judged the quality of your work. That model is rapidly changing. Modern workplaces can generate enormous quantities of information about employees — sometimes without them fully appreciating how much data is being collected. Email systems can record communications. Access-control systems can log movements. Cameras can monitor physical spaces. Software can measure activity on company computers. AI can analyse meetings, messages and documents. And increasingly, employers can use algorithms to turn all of that information into assessments of how people work. The result is a new form of workplace surveillance that is far more sophisticated than the traditional security camera. The workplace is becoming measurable Almost everything an employee does digitally can potentially leave a record. Logging into a computer. Opening a document. Sending an ...