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What is your greater concern about the impact of technology on worker health and safety?

Ideas

Score (0 - 100)

 
The trend of increasing work hours negatively affects employees' work-life balance.
69
An increased use of technology in the workplace and telecommuting may blur boundaries between work & home life.
68
Employers’ tracking of workers’ health data can lead to discrimination based on health, age, disability, or pregnancy.
66
Workers don't have a sufficient voice in determining the use of surveillance & productivity technology at their job.
66
It is often unclear what employers are allowed to do with the data they collect on their workers.
66
Technologies that employers use to track non-work activities, such as health data, can threaten worker privacy.
63
Unpredictable schedules due to new platform economy jobs can have negative effects on workers’ mental health.
63
The use of remote monitoring in the workplace should be regulated.
62
Insufficient leisure time affects workers' health.
61
Workers who remain in the workforce longer, because they can't retire, face age-related health risks at work.
61
Remote monitoring of employees creates a high-pressure work environment.
61
Companies are increasingly outsourcing work to contractors that don’t have the same worker safety standards.
60
The use of technology to manage employee activities at work can negatively affect workers' health.
58
Surveillance technologies can enable employers to trim down what is considered “work time” and reduce pay.
58
Technologies that surveil workers may be used to terminate employees automatically.
58
Employers’ use of temporary workers can negatively impact standard employees’ perceptions of their own job security.
57
An increasing use of technology in the workplace may increase problems with mental health and stress.
57
The types of data that employers collect on workers can, over time, change what kind of work is seen as valuable.
56
The use of new tools to psychologically profile job candidates can lead to hiring discrimination.
55
Workers have less power through labor unions to voice concerns about workplace safety than they used to have.
55
Remote monitoring and time-tracking technology can lead to surveillance of employees.
55
Unpredictable schedules due to new platform economy jobs can interfere with workers’ family lives.
55
The use of predictive technology, such as algorithms, may result in bias and discrimination in the workplace.
54
Labor unions need to push harder for workplace policies limiting the use of technologies to monitor employees.
54
Temporary or contract workers may have less knowledge about workplace hazards than standard employees.
54
Technology used to monitor employees can create unfair productivity standards and endanger worker health and safety.
51
Workers who lose their jobs face higher mortality rates and reduced life expectancy.
50
Temporary or contract workers may see organizational culture and workplace safety differently from regular employees.
50
It is harder to determine who should be responsible for a workplace safety violation when a company has outsourced labor.
49
Regulators should conduct more on-site risk assessments to identify required safety equipment and training.
48
Facial recognition and other new technologies are being used to unfairly discriminate against workers in hiring.
48
Electronic time-tracking technology at work can be used to commit wage theft against hourly employees.
48
Workers who lose their jobs may have lower rates of home ownership, be more likely to use disability insurance.
47
Temporary or contract workers may receive different levels of safety training from standard employees.
47
Work in the online platform economy creates increased stress for workers.
47
Employers may not protect the safety of workers from staffing agencies.
47
Digital platforms with user rating systems make workers vulnerable to biased clients.
46
Children of workers who lose their jobs frequently underperform in education.
45
Immigrants who work jobs with safety hazards risk retaliation for voicing their concerns.
44
Digital platforms can subject care workers to excessive surveillance.
44
Online platform companies are hiring people to do dangerous jobs for which they are untrained and unprotected.
44
Jobs at the highest risk of automation are disproportionately held by workers from marginalized populations.
43
Digital tools with user ratings can give clients the ability to see data & ratings about workers but not the reverse.
42
Companies who hire contract and temporary workers don’t have adequate measures in place to report workplace injuries.
40
Language barriers for non-English-speaking workers can prevent them from accessing workplace safety information.
39
Temporary workers are sometimes assigned to the most dangerous jobs.
37
Regulators should take advantage of new technology to conduct inspections and deliver safety training.
37
Employers are not taking enough advantage of new technologies for monitoring safety conditions.
36
New technology will eliminate my job in ten years.
35
Employers are not taking enough advantage of new technologies for predicting accidents.
34
New jobs that combine automation and human labor can be unsafe for workers.
33
Temporary workers have higher rates of workplace injury.
33
New technology will eliminate my job in five years.
32
New technology will eliminate my job in one year.
26
New technology will transform my job and make it less interesting to do.
26