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THE HUMAN YIELD

SECTION 15

ISSUE 001

INFERENCEprovocationnowconfidence / medium

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.

  1. S01
    Shifting Work Patterns with Generative AI

    randomized field experiment / dated 2025 / retrieved 2026-07-09

  2. S02
    Artificial Intelligence Adoption and Its Impact on Jobs

    ILO research paper / published 2025-05-31 / retrieved 2026-07-09

  3. S03
    Economy — 2026 AI Index Report

    academic current-state report / published 2026-04-01 / retrieved 2026-07-10

  4. S04
    AI and skills: What we know so far

    intergovernmental current-state report / published 2026-06-05 / retrieved 2026-07-10

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