Research Note

The Ethics of Workplace Intelligence

Audience

Executives, ethicists, works councils, vendors

Core question

Where is the line between evidence and surveillance — and who draws it?

Thesis

The same instrumentation serves both; the difference is architectural and governance choices made deliberately. The field needs its ethical line stated plainly: aggregate insight for decisions people are told about, never individual monitoring for judgements they are not.

Suggested structure
  1. Same sensors, two futures
  2. The bright lines: individual data, performance inference, covert collection
  3. Bias and interpretation risk in workplace analytics
  4. An ethics test for any proposed measurement
Research sources
  • Surveillance studies
  • AI ethics frameworks
  • Workplace monitoring regulation across markets
Workplaced relation

States the category's ethical obligations, including Workplaced's own commitments.

Related methods
Full article body — in development.