Wellness monitoring masks workplace surveillance

Firms increasingly deploy tools that track employees’ digital activity (calls, keystrokes, calendars) and present aggregated ‘well‑being’ metrics as benefits. Framed as protecting staff from burnout, the same telemetry can be repurposed to measure productivity, discipline staff, or justify managerial decisions. — This reframing matters because it shows how pro‑employee rationales can normalize invasive monitoring, shifting the privacy and power balance at scale in major workplaces.