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Chinese company that gave’smart cushion’… Turns out, employee surveillance?

A Chinese company has been accused of using a’smart cushion’ to monitor employee attitudes.

According to the Global Times of China on the 6th, an employee of a technology company in Hangzhou recently received a smart cushion from the company online to all employees. It revealed that it is used to figure out the map.

If the user is not moving for a long time, the cushion will sound an alarm.

The data collected by the cushion is also accessible to employers, leading to criticism that the company is illegally monitoring employees.

According to Pong Hwang Mang, when an employee of this company encounters an employee in the human resources department in an article posted on the Internet, he asks,’Why are you leaving from 10 am to 10:30 every morning? He said that the conversation was cool when he heard that the boss said, “Be careful, because the bonus can be reduced.

He said that he wasn’t the only one who received similar attention. “The boss asked me why he gave me a cushion, but it turned out that it was a watchdog.”

The company explained that it was only trying to test the smart cushion it developed, but it had no intention of monitoring employees, but the controversy did not subside.

Some online users have criticized smart cushions as nothing more than a means of subtly monitoring employees.

In 2019, there was controversy as well, in Nanjing, environmentalists were given smart bracelets.

This smart bracelet has a location function, and it alerts you when workers are in the same spot for more than 20 minutes.

(Photo = Shinkyungbo, Yonhap News)

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