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Amazon's staff management methods are now getting more autocratic as the company turns to its ring system to spy on anyone unfortunate enough to work there, according to a new Data & Society report.
Amazon’s Ring security cameras has become the de facto surveillance system for Amazon delivery drivers and gig workers and the company is using it to monitor staff beyond working hours.
Data & Society analysts Aiha Nguyen and Eve Zelickso chatted to Ring camera owners and Amazon employees, and said that number of factors converging to create a new managerial class of citizen who, often unwittingly, provides free labor to the company.
Amazon's staff management methods are now getting more autocratic as the company turns to its ring system to spy on anyone unfortunate enough to work there, according to a new Data & Society report.
Amazon’s Ring security cameras has become the de facto surveillance system for Amazon delivery drivers and gig workers and the company is using it to monitor staff beyond working hours.
Data & Society analysts Aiha Nguyen and Eve Zelickso chatted to Ring camera owners and Amazon employees, and said that number of factors converging to create a new managerial class of citizen who, often unwittingly, provides free labor to the company.
