Knowing where to draw the line between an employee and its workplace is becoming increasingly difficult. Not just conceptually in terms of work-life balance, but also physically, with the introduction of wearables and other employee-tracking technologies. It sometimes seems as if Frederick Winslow Taylor’s unfinished project is around right the corner: A time-and-motion utopia in which managers can track almost any aspect of employee behavior on a second-by-second basis.
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