I've become entirely dependent on my monitor at work, and now find myself being the guy with both a laptop and tablet out on the table at the coffee shop.
NASA's alpha nerds have inspired a bit of a fad in Silicon Valley: massive, multi-monitor displays able to awe viewers with the kind of richness they'll never be able to get on that dinky 18-inch LCD monitor at work or the pathetic 30-inch high-definition television at home.
*Update, 3 September, 5 09 p.m.: This article has been updated to clarify the number of monitoring teams at work.
With monitoring systems at work, it will be easier to spot waste points and better distribute resources while controlling costs, and reducing energy and natural resources consumption.
Organizational characteristics included organizational size, age, type, number of sites, absenteeism monitoring, presenteeism (productivity at work) monitoring, centralized health benefit decision making, local health benefit decision making, size of health benefit purchasing group, financial member in health benefit purchasing group, and NBCH affiliation.
Subjects wore one personal monitor while at work and one while away from the workplace on weekdays, and a third monitor at the weekend.
"As a software engineer, I use two 24-inch monitors daily at work," says Xiao Jia, CEO and creator of SPACE, explaining how he came up with the idea.
But he approves of the team's approach of monitoring the traders at work because it captures the person making decisions in a habitual, true-to-life environment, rather than a contrived laboratory task.
In the latter scenario, top-down control is engaged, though it is not directed towards the stimulus for which learning is measured, performance monitoring processes are at work, and any resulting reward is linked to ongoing performance.
Employers may choose to monitor your activity at work for a number of reasons, from health and safety, to protecting business interests, or, for example, to prevent misconduct, improve productivity, or identify training requirements.
