‘Dystopian’ surveillance ‘disproportionately targets young, female and minority workers’

Thinktank calls on UK government to provide stronger regulation to protect workers from intrusive monitoring

“Dystopian” worker surveillance techniques are more likely likely to disproportionately affect young people, women and ethnic minorities, a report by the Institute for Public Policy Research thinktank warns.

Worker surveillance practices have increasingly become the new normal, with a rise in remote work leading to an escalation in workplace monitoring, according to the report. But it says regulation has not kept up with the reality.