{"id":38645,"date":"2025-04-13T07:30:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T07:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/13\/surveillance-is-in-perks-out-bosses-have-dropped-their-masks-but-gen-z-is-fighting-back-sarah-manavis\/"},"modified":"2025-04-13T07:30:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T07:30:57","slug":"surveillance-is-in-perks-out-bosses-have-dropped-their-masks-but-gen-z-is-fighting-back-sarah-manavis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/13\/surveillance-is-in-perks-out-bosses-have-dropped-their-masks-but-gen-z-is-fighting-back-sarah-manavis\/","title":{"rendered":"Surveillance is in, perks out. Bosses have dropped their masks, but gen Z is fighting back | Sarah Manavis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Employees are choosing to opt out of a new era of corporate malignity, epitomised by Elon Musk<\/p>\n<p>Almost any workplace study in the last decade will tell you that the death of productivity \u2013 and the death of profits \u2013 is a direct result of having miserable, overworked and micromanaged employees. In an attempt to make themselves feel in control, bosses delude themselves into believing that a tight grip will yield big results from their staff.<\/p>\n<p>Overwhelmingly though, the reality is the opposite: that relaxed, empowered workers (with plenty of free time) are the ones who manage to do the best work, often in shorter days than 9-5.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/apr\/13\/surveillance-is-in-perks-out-bosses-have-dropped-their-masks-but-gen-z-is-fighting-back\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employees are choosing to opt out of a new era of corporate malignity, epitomised by Elon Musk Almost any workplace study in the last decade will tell you that the death of productivity \u2013 and the death of profits \u2013 is a direct result of having miserable, overworked and micromanaged employees. In an attempt to &#8230; <a title=\"Surveillance is in, perks out. Bosses have dropped their masks, but gen Z is fighting back | Sarah Manavis\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/13\/surveillance-is-in-perks-out-bosses-have-dropped-their-masks-but-gen-z-is-fighting-back-sarah-manavis\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Surveillance is in, perks out. Bosses have dropped their masks, but gen Z is fighting back | Sarah Manavis\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}