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1 in 3 workers say surveillance by bosses has negative impact on mental health
Surveillance camera [Parker Coffman / Creative Commons]

ONE in three workers feel technological surveillance by bosses has a negative impact on their mental health, new GMB research has found. 

Artificial intelligence should be used to make working life easier for people, not trap them in an “Orwellian nightmare,” the general union warned today.

Its poll, released as GMB’s annual congress gets underway in Harrogate, reveals that more than 32 per cent of the 1,600 workers consulted are concerned about the impact of technology on their “sense of wellbeing” at work. 

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