The future of work increasingly focuses on the collection and analysis of worker data to monitor communication, ensure productivity, reduce security threats, and assist in decision-making. The COVID-19 pandemic increased employer reliance on these technologies; however, the blurring of home and work boundaries meant these monitoring tools might also surveil private spaces. To explore workers’ attitudes toward increased monitoring practices, we present findings from a factorial vignette survey of 645 U.S. adults who worked from home during the early months of the pandemic. Using the theory of privacy as contextual integrity to guide the survey design and analysis, we unpack the types of workplace surveillance practices that violate privacy norms and consider attitudinal differences between male and female workers. Our findings highlight that the acceptability of workplace surveillance practices is highly contextual, and that reductions in privacy and autonomy at work may further exacerbate power imbalances, especially for vulnerable employees.

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监控与工作的未来：探索员工对后疫情工作场所监控的态度

未来的工作越来越关注员工数据的收集和分析，以监控通信、确保生产力、减少安全威胁并协助决策。COVID-19 大流行增加了雇主对这些技术的依赖；然而，家庭和工作界限的模糊意味着这些监控工具也可能监控私人空间。为了探究员工对加强监控做法的态度，我们提出了对 645 名在大流行最初几个月在家工作的美国成年人进行的阶乘调查的结果。我们利用隐私理论作为背景完整性来指导调查设计和分析，分析了违反隐私规范的工作场所监视实践的类型，并考虑了男性和女性员工之间的态度差异。