Measuring employee performance by
surveillance isn’t a new practice, but
technology helps companies monitor
their workers in whole new (and
invasive) ways.
F
or the 25 years he’d been on Earth and the seven years he’d been a
professional trucker, 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* was traveling through a small town and keeping to the posted speed
limit. He knew, though, just as he hit a curve, that he should have slowed down
sooner. But the electronic logging device (ELD) installed in his truck was ticking
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The twisted wreck of the bed lay behind it, and the lumber it carried was
scattered down the highway like popsicle sticks. Miraculously, Trevor walked
away with only bruises.
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