Is it wrong to be surveilled at work?

When you clock into your job, you’re being evaluated. It’s part of the gig. If you work for a company, they’re going to evaluate you and your performance, and that will include tracking your metrics. Maybe you can check in with your manager from time to time to update them on what you’re doing. They want to know that you’re doing your job, and you want to show them. It’s a natural part of working somewhere. But where do we draw the line? Where do we define our discomfort around being observed? Do we get to have a say in how much we’re looked at and evaluated, even at work?

The person in this story was up against that question and wasn’t sure what they were going to do about it. They weren’t sure whether or not what their employer was doing to them was within the regular bounds of work. They felt like they were being unfairly singled out, and they wanted that to change. It’s not easy to stick up for yourself in the workplace. It’s much easier to accept the status quo and not challenge it until you know if you’re going along with something you really wish you hadn’t signed up for.