The Quantified Employee: How Companies Use Tech to Track Workers

Measuring employee performance with surveillance isn't new, but emerging technologies are helping companies monitor workers in arguably invasive ways. Are you being watched?

For the seven years he’d been a professional trucker, 25-year-old Trevor had let his own common sense drive his actions. But one night last November, he was answering instead to a government-mandated device his employer had installed in his truck—and it nearly ended him.

Trevor, who asked ...