An environmental services company in eastern China has stopped sending its sanitation workers alerts via smart bracelet if they don’t keep moving. Other monitoring via the devices is continuing. Photo: Thecover.cn
An environmental services company in eastern China has stopped sending its sanitation workers alerts via smart bracelet if they don’t keep moving. Other monitoring via the devices is continuing. Photo: Thecover.cn

Chinese workers freed from Big Brother style monitoring after public stink

  • Company bows to pressure one day after its policy of using smart bracelets to keep track of idle workers is revealed
  • Cleaners will no longer be sent alerts if they don’t move enough on the job

An environmental services company in eastern China has stopped sending its sanitation workers alerts via smart bracelet if they don’t keep moving. Other monitoring via the devices is continuing. Photo: Thecover.cn
An environmental services company in eastern China has stopped sending its sanitation workers alerts via smart bracelet if they don’t keep moving. Other monitoring via the devices is continuing. Photo: Thecover.cn
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