Workplace surveillance widespread

Office buildings are undergoing a high-tech refit to make them safe for occupancy during pandemics. These include thermal scanners to check for fever, ultraviolet HVAC air filters,, employee location trackers, contact tracing and crowding apps, and elevator researvation systems. PricewaterhouseCoopers is pitching a contact tracing tool for enterprise IT customers that "adds a new app or line of code to business apps that workers already have on their phones, then runs in the background, using Bluetooth or WiFi signals to catalogue other co-workers’ phones that come near."

This points towards a future of pervasive surveillance of workers in office environments, which may reduce their objection to sensors in public spaces.