Big Brother's Corporate Cousin.

According to the American Management Association, 80 percent of U.S. corporations keep their employees under regular surveillance, and that percentage is growing all the time. The American workplace is becoming ever more transparent to employers and oppressive for employees. Along with being invasive and increasing the rate of exploitation, on-the-job surveillance makes it easier for supervisors to fire or harass restive workers. Rather than "freeing workers" and "flattening hierarchies," as the New Economy hype would have it, computers, databases and high-speed networks are pushing social relations on the job toward a new digital Taylorism, where every motion is watched, studied and controlled by and for the boss.