| Title | Privacy Makes Workers More Productive | |
| Date | Saturday October 22 2016, @11:14AM | |
| Author | cmn32480 | |
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| from the duh? dept. | ||
[...] In instituting these four forms of privacy—privacy within team boundaries, privacy limits on employee data, privacy in decision-making, and privacy about time—the organizations Bernstein studied refused the temptation to observe (or try to observe) everything. That refusal did not cost them profits or effectiveness. Instead, respect for privacy enhanced their success.
[...] That suggests that privacy's defenders should not concede that total surveillance is safest (or most efficient or most profitable), before going on to say that it would be creepy to have to fly naked. That's important in a society where monitoring technology is ever cheaper and ever more powerful, and the notion is spreading that surveillance, and the data it generates, can solve any problem. Privacy, so often depicted as the enemy of efficiency in public life, can be its friend.
[Discussion]: Privacy Makes Workers More Productive
[Source]: Want People to Behave Better? Give Them More Privacy
[Related]: Duet Ex Machina
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