THE HUMAN YIELD
SECTION 15
ISSUE 001
Workers Own the Adoption Telemetry
Provocation: workers should see the same adoption telemetry management sees—time shifts, task changes, error rates, and performance effects—and hold collective rights over its interpretation. Otherwise measurement becomes a one-way mirror: employees supply the data while surveillance and automation claims acquire an undeserved aura of objectivity.
Why this idea is here
What the evidence establishes.
NBER field evidence measures changed work patterns; ILO highlights algorithmic management and the often-hidden labor underpinning AI systems.
Source ledger
Read the sources.
- S01Shifting Work Patterns with Generative AI
randomized field experiment / dated 2025 / retrieved 2026-07-09
- S02Artificial Intelligence Adoption and Its Impact on Jobs
ILO research paper / published 2025-05-31 / retrieved 2026-07-09
- S03Economy — 2026 AI Index Report
academic current-state report / published 2026-04-01 / retrieved 2026-07-10
- S04AI and skills: What we know so far
intergovernmental current-state report / published 2026-06-05 / retrieved 2026-07-10