The Guardian Lists Augmented Reality as Workplace Technology
Following recent coverage of Amazon’s alleged workplace practices in the news and social media, fears of workplace monitoring are increasingly an issue of concern for workers and managers with new technologies. In this post on The Guardian web site, the author suggests that with devices sending emails and notifications throughout the day, such as is possible with Google Glass, workers may suffer from information overload.
Questions about recording video and audio, whether in terms of a manager’s demanding your first-person footage of a task, or simply the danger of an entire workforce becoming walking CCTV cameras are raised. It’s unfortunate that the post does not in any way attempt to rank the different types of concerns or suggest the opinions of experts who have studied workplace performance when using smartglasses and other advanced technologies.
The AREA members are studying these issues and developing recommendations for their management.