The surveillance tech waiting for workers as they return to the office

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February 27, 2025, 2:15 PM

• •Warehouse-style employee-tracking technology is coming for the office worker.
• •A new wave of return-to-office mandates has arrived since the New Year, including at JP Morgan Chase, leading advertising agency WPP, and Amazon.
• •Depending on the survey, approximately 70 to 80 percent of large US employers now use some form of employee monitoring, and the likes of PwC have explicitly told workers that managers will be tracking their location to enforce a three-day office week policy.

Warehouse-style employee-tracking technology is coming for the office worker. As more companies return to the office, the interest in this idea of “optimized” working spaces is growing fast.

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