Micromanagement Material: Electronic Sleeves Monitor Workers’ Efficiency

[IDemo]

Computerized sleeves may soon allow manufacturing bosses to monitor and record workers’ moves and mine them for efficiency data.

The sleeves are just prototypes for now, but the devices are intended to replace stopwatch-wielding time lords hovering around employees to assess their efficiency.

Motion-capture systems (such as those used to animate computer-generated movie characters) might allow Big Brother monitoring on par with the sleeves, but such systems require special computing, expensive video cameras and other impractical elements. So a pair of wearable, breathable electronic sleeves may become the ultimate micromanaging tool.

“The present stopwatch method only allows a process organizer to time five individuals simultaneously, depending on the situation,” said research manager Martin Woitag of the Fraunhofer Institute in a press release. “Our solution makes it possible to record time simultaneously, even at several workplaces, without requiring additional labor.”

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/01/electronic-sleeve-monitoring/

[ret5hd]

1. they are never/will never be

satisfied.

[leftyohiolib]

2. petty-assed bitches

a certain amount of in-efficiency from workers should be exceptable. just like companies who produce food are allowed a small amount of bug excrement in the stuff they produce. if the government told them they had to be 100% efficient (completely uncontaminated food) they'd shit themselves crying foul.
unionize!

[Brickbat]

3. Looking forward to a day when workers demand the same of their managers -- you know, logs of their

internet use during the day, tracking how long they talk with co-workers about sports, eye-tracking software to see how often they look away from their computer screens, and so on.

This crap is fucking sick.

[The Straight Story]

4. Set me up with them and a porn mag and I will show em how efficient I am

[customerserviceguy]

6. A man who views pornography on the job

Is a man who's hard at work.

[arikara]

5. No job is worth that much

they don't pay enough for that dehumanizing bullshit. They can build robots to build their cheap crap, put everybody out of work and there will be no one left to buy their garbage.