The Economist reports that a tech startup sells a surveillance and control badge for the workforce. The device monitors workers' conversations, tracks their movements and even their posture.
The company that makes the creepy "sociometric" combadge has a creepy name — Humanyze — and its marketing is a cold wall of data jargon. The founder, Ben Waber, is an MIT Media Lab alumnus who boasts that he "literally wrote the book on People Analytics" and who published research on having workers take coffee breaks together to improve their productivity.
If it weren't reality, it would be too crudely dystopian to pass muster as fiction.
"I literally wrote the book on People Analytics. You're spending WAY too long on the toilet"
