Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 3 · Licensed source edition
The connected workplace: Characteristics and social consequences of work surveillance in the age of datification, sensorization, and artificial intelligence
Originally published 2023-09-22 · Journal of Information Technology
SAGE Publications · DOI 10.1177/02683962231202535 ↗
AI / system type
AI-supported connected workplace surveillance and sensor data
Workplace evidenceExamines workers, organizations or AI at work. Participants are not necessarily parents; family benefits are not established by this evidence alone.
The AI connection
System or context examined: AI-supported connected workplace surveillance and sensor data. The source-specific system and study design determine what can be inferred.
Why this reading matters
The reading brings boundaries between workplace surveillance and private life into a concrete discussion of humane work during technological change. It offers conceptual analysis and research agenda evidence or analysis, not a promise of organizational or family benefit.
Workplace evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
The workplace lens is boundaries between workplace surveillance and private life. Source setting or population: Connected workplace surveillance practices, including remote work and bodily data collection. Parenting and child-development outcomes are not inferred from the workplace evidence.
Examines workers, organizations or AI at work. Participants are not necessarily parents; family benefits are not established by this evidence alone.
Editorial reading guide · Respect
Where should an employer’s data collection stop when work enters the home?
This conceptual analysis and research agenda examines boundaries between workplace surveillance and private life. Its TRICK home is Respect, an editorial reading path rather than a claim that the paper tests the full framework.
Study context
Connected workplace surveillance practices, including remote work and bodily data collection
Age / stage: Workplace literature or conceptual analysis; no single child age range
Read with three questions
- Where should an employer’s data collection stop when work enters the home?
- What do this study’s design and population — Connected workplace surveillance practices, including remote work and bodily data collection — allow you to infer about another workplace?
- When considering boundaries between workplace surveillance and private life, which decisions would need employee input before applying this reading to a working family’s circumstances?
Keep the limits in view
A conceptual analysis identifies ethical and research questions rather than estimating the effects of a tested workplace intervention.
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Tobias Mettler (2023). The connected workplace: Characteristics and social consequences of work surveillance in the age of datification, sensorization, and artificial intelligence Journal of Information Technology. https://doi.org/10.1177/02683962231202535
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