Celebrating life

By DeeS

Time & motion

No slacking allowed.
No office benefits
Of water cooler chats
A quick coffee
Or popping outside for a smoke.
Here every second and every move
Counts
And can count against you.


Devices like these - in the powerful exhibition curated by Jeremy Deller in the Manchester Art Gallery - are worn by Amazon warehouse employees to track the speed of orders and the efficiency of staff (many of whom are on zero hours contracts). It can calculate if the worker is falling behind schedule and send warnings to inform him or her of the situation.

Heavily cropped, this won't stand up to larger scrutiny.

Will catch up with you all tomorrow.

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