Research shows that being “always on” and accessible by technology while working remotely leads to the blurring of work and non-work boundaries, particularly working from home (Russell 2019). A 2017 United Nations report found that 41% of remote workers reported high stress levels, compared to just 25% of office workers. One of the reasons for this could be the “out of sight, out of mind” mentality that’s commonplace toward remote workers, which leads to a lack of trust, feelings of being an outsider and a tendency for people to think their colleagues are talking negatively about them behind their back.

Also, as the technology in the workplace keeps evolving, advance technology such as ‘new employee-monitoring systems’ allow managers to continuously check on their employees’ routes, their stops, their detours. Consequently, workers may lose pride and dignity in their jobs, and experience reduced job satisfaction and may lead to workplace stress (Nankervis et al. 2020, p. 447)

For example:  Amazon warehouse employees against the day-to-day dehumanizing reality of their workplace (Guendelsberger 2019). As every single thing they did was monitored and timed by their manager via a technology called “scan gun”. When a task is completed, new tasks will be allocated to them immediately and started to count down the seconds they had left to do it, and only off the task of 18 min, including using the bathroom. Thus, they feel incredible pressure as the advanced technology allows their manager to monitor them at every single period, nonstop, and never letting their mind wander off their tasks. 

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