Some employers monitor workers minute by minute. Some won't pay for work that wasn't recorded by the monitoring software.

To prevent competitive advantage (or the belief that there is competitive advantage) from stampeding all businesses into intrusive monitoring of workers as if they were machines, we should legislate rules that limit monitoring. When a business argues that "We will be at a disadvantage if we don't do this to our workers, we will have two responses: (1) your competitors can't do this either, and (2) respect for human beings is more important than how much profit you make".