Would you trust your employer to monitor your body at work?
I always feel like somebody's watching me.
High performance athletes have long relied on body monitoring to improve their performance. Now, we're starting to see physical monitoring in jobs like stock trading, to better manage the relationship between stress and decision-making.
John Coates studies the effect of the body on performance at work. He says bodily conditions like chronic stress affect performance, and in the financial sector, that ultimately affects profitability. How likely is it that we'll see this start to move into more and more jobs, from monitoring movement in the warehouse, to tracking eye movements of desk jockeys?