Ifeoma Ajunwa: Limitless Boundaries of Employee Surveillance

As automated and surveillance systems become unyieldingly dominant in our professional and personal lives, and as our professional and personal lives become unyieldingly blurred, hiring and managing practices have encountered new challenges in understanding and addressing systems on inequality in organizations. With often unclear ways to protect worker privacy, these new tools pose as both a resource and threat to anti-discrimination efforts in the workplace. In this episode, we are speaking with Dr. Ifeoma Ajunwa about the legal and ethical implications of workplace surveillance in the age of remote work, wearable tech, and DNA testing. She offers legal and scholarly frameworks in delineating and navigating the ever-changing boundaries for worker surveillance. Ifeoma is a tenured associate law professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law. She is also the founding director of the Artificial Intelligence Decision-Making Research (AI-DR) Program at UNC Law. At the time of this recording, she was an associate professor in the labor relations, law, and history department of Cornell University’s Industrial and Labor Relations School.