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When productivity monitoring makes you less productive

My company's productivity software tracks my keyboard activity and mouse clicks and I find myself doing pointless busy work just to keep the metrics up instead of actually thinking about problems.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Surveillance designed to improve performance is incentivizing the appearance of work over the substance of contribution.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Privacy and surveillance in digital life?”

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