Companies are beginning to instrument employees' screens, keystrokes, mouse movements and app interactions to create datasets that train internal AI models. This practice ties worker behaviour directly into product development, performance evaluation, and cost‑cutting decisions.
— If adopted widely, corporate harvesting of employee workflows will reshape workplace privacy norms, bargaining power, automation risk, and who benefits from productivity gains.
BeauHD
2026.05.13
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Reuters reports Meta installed mouse‑tracking and will capture clicks/keystrokes to train models — a direct, named example of employers collecting everyday workflow telemetry to build AI systems.
EditorDavid
2026.05.10
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Meta’s announcement to track what employees type/click and to use that data to train AI models, plus token‑use dashboards and performance review linkages, is the concrete exemplar.
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