Black employees are more likely to be subjected to surveillance and algorithmic management technologies at work, according to research from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR).
The report, Negotiating the future of work: Legislating to protect workers from surveillance, highlights how roles with low autonomy, low skill levels, and a lack of union representation, characteristics common in sectors like retail, are particularly vulnerable to technological monitoring.
According to the study, Black workers are 26 per cent more likely to be in low-autonomy roles and 42 per cent more likely to work in low-skilled jobs. Furthermore, 73 per cent of Black workers do not belong to a trade union, which increases their exposure to intrusive management tools.
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Margaret Ochieng, organisational psychologist and director and founder of The Inclusive Village, said the findings are “unfortunately, far from surprising”.
“What is surprising, however, is the repetitive cycle in which report after report uncovers the same issues, and proposes similar recommendations, and yet institutions divert their energy not toward implementing those recommendations, but toward conducting yet another round of research to reaffirm what is already known,” she said.
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