Meta employees protest against tracking technology that monitors their PCs
The tech giant is unionising: workers appeal to the US National Labor Relations Act
Meta employees distributed flyers in several US offices to protest the recent installation by the company of mouse-tracking software on their computers.
The flyers, which appeared in meeting rooms, on vending machines and above toilet paper dispensers in the offices of the company that owns Facebook, encourage employees to sign an online petition against the measure. "You don't want to work in the Employee Data Extraction Factory, do you?" the flyer asks. And this about a week before Meta fires 10 per cent of its workforce.
The tech giant is unionising
It is the clearest sign so far of a nascent labour movement taking hold within the social media giant, as at least some employees are beginning to channel their anger at the company's plans to reshape the workforce around artificial intelligence into unionisation initiatives.
For months, Meta employees have been expressing their disappointment on internal platforms and online forums over the company's plans for mass redundancies planned for this year - confirmed to employees more than a month after they were first reported - and over the introduction of mouse-tracking software that many employees see as equivalent to designing artificial intelligence bots to replace employees' work.
Meta's defence
Meta spokesman Andy Stone, when asked about this, referred back to an earlier statement made by the company on mouse tracking technology.
