To try to answer them, I turned the spylike software on myself. The technology raises thorny privacy questions about where employers draw the line between maintaining productivity from a homebound work force and creepy surveillance. Demand has surged for software that can monitor employees, with programs tracking the words we type, snapping pictures with our computer cameras and giving our managers rankings of who is spending too much time on Facebook and not enough on Excel. Here’s why: With millions of us working from home in the coronavirus pandemic, companies are hunting for ways to ensure that we are doing what we are supposed to.

By 10:09 a.m., work momentum lost, I read about the Irish village where Matt Damon was living out the quarantine.Īll of these details - from the websites I visited to my GPS coordinates - were available for my boss to review. At 9:14 a.m., I made changes to an upcoming story and read through interview notes. LONDON - On April 23, I started work at 8:49 a.m., reading and responding to emails, browsing the news and scrolling Twitter.

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