Employee surveillance: The thing behind the thing (or many things)

Ted Bauer
3 min readAug 18, 2022

Sadly, especially within COVID, employee surveillance became a huge, growing market. The tongue-in-cheek beauty way to describe it is “performance management,” which makes it seem like you really care about the career development of these drones and peons. In reality, it’s a core middle management tactic to exert control over white-collar workers, which is logical, since work

Ted Bauer

Mostly write about work, leadership, friendship, masculinity, male infertility, and some other stuff along the way. It's a pleasure to be here.