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Digital workplace surveillance in telework environments creates critical tensions between efficiency and trust, transparency and intrusion, and compliance and intrinsic motivation, which can either support or destabilize employee wellbeing and job satisfaction. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

What question did this study set out to answer?

To analyze how digital workplace surveillance influences employee morale and job satisfaction in remote work environments.

August 2, 2026MeritsOpen Access

Applied Ergonomics in Telework: A Sociotechnical and Organizational Psychology Analysis of Workplace Digital Surveillance and Worker Wellbeing Job Satisfaction

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Qualitative study examines digital surveillance effects on job satisfaction among remote workers, suggesting impacts on trust and autonomy.

Key Points

To analyze how digital workplace surveillance influences employee morale and job satisfaction in remote work environments.
Qualitative phenomenological study
In-depth semi-structured interviews with Generation Y and Generation Z employees
Analysis grounded in a socio-technical ergonomics framework
Identified themes of tension between efficiency and trust in surveillance practices
Highlighting perceptions of autonomy impacted by monitoring technologies
Showed how transparency can lead to feelings of intrusion affecting job satisfaction

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Darrell Norman Burrell (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a6eeb2c1b0468a7eeab415f https://doi.org/10.3390/merits6030021

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August 2, 2026MeritsOpen Access

Applied Ergonomics in Telework: A Sociotechnical and Organizational Psychology Analysis of Workplace Digital Surveillance and Worker Wellbeing Job Satisfaction

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Authors

DBDarrell Norman Burrell

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Overview

Qualitative study examines digital surveillance effects on job satisfaction among remote workers, suggesting impacts on trust and autonomy.

Key Points

To analyze how digital workplace surveillance influences employee morale and job satisfaction in remote work environments.
Qualitative phenomenological study
In-depth semi-structured interviews with Generation Y and Generation Z employees
Analysis grounded in a socio-technical ergonomics framework
Identified themes of tension between efficiency and trust in surveillance practices
Highlighting perceptions of autonomy impacted by monitoring technologies
Showed how transparency can lead to feelings of intrusion affecting job satisfaction

Cite This Study

Darrell Norman Burrell (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a6eeb2c1b0468a7eeab415f https://doi.org/10.3390/merits6030021

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