Didn’t realize until recently that monitoring tools had gotten so specific

Came across something that mentioned monitoring tools that track bathroom breaks, read your emotional state, or even pull neural data from employees. I had no idea stuff like that was being deployed anywhere! I just assumed monitoring software was still mostly screenshots and keystroke counts.

Also saw mention of companies letting an automated system make the actual call on someone’s termination with no human reviewing it first. That one struck me more than the bathroom tracking honestly….

Everything I’ve personally had on a work laptop has been the boring kind. Idle timers, activity logging, maybe a screenshot every so often. Annoying but not exactly dystopian 🙂

So now I’m wondering how common the more invasive stuff actually is versus just being an outlier case that got attention.

Anyone had something installed that felt like it was crossing the line, versus the standard idle-tracker stuff?