Yes, your boss is tracking you

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Lately, our bosses are going further than reading our emails. New technologies that can track our motions and our moods are ushering in a new age of workplace surveillance. Is this productivity hacking, or counterproductive micromanagement? Our guest, David Murakami Wood, is the Canada Research Chair in Critical Surveillance and Security Studies and a professor at the University of Ottawa. He joins the show to walk us through recent mind-blowing advances in employee tracking technology and whether all this surveillance actually makes workplaces more efficient. He also explains why he didn’t get a cell phone until two years ago. Also, Vass and Katrina undergo theoretical brain surgery. Subscribe to the Lately newsletter (https://www.theglobeandmail.com/newsletters/) , where the Globe’s online culture reporter Samantha Edwards unpacks more of the latest in business and technology. Find the transcript of today’s episode here. (https://lately.simplecast.com/episodes/yes-your-boss-is-tracking-you/transcript) We’d love to hear from you. Send your comments, questions or ideas to lately@globeandmail.com (mailto:lately@globeandmail.com) .