Your Boss Is an Algorithm
How Work Became a Number, and Who Pays for Being CountedBy Bennett Warde
Length6h 16m
About this audiobook
Your manager used to be a person. Now, increasingly, it is a system.
It assigns your work. It watches you do it. It scores the result and decides what happens next. It never sleeps, never forgets, and never explains itself.
From Frederick Taylor's stopwatch to the algorithm that can end a career without anyone deciding to, Bennett Warde traces how management became measurement, and measurement became software. Drawing on court rulings, regulatory findings, and the best available research, he shows what these systems deliver, what they cost, and who pays.
The evidence is blunt. Across ninety-four studies and more than twenty thousand workers, electronic monitoring has never been shown to make people perform better. It has been shown to make them feel worse.
This is not an argument against measurement. It is an argument about accountability, and about what a working person is owed when a machine decides something about their life.
Audiobook details
GenreBusiness and Economics
Length6 hrs 16 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 18, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Opening Credits
12Chapter 7. The Measured Body
2Prologue. The Shift That Scheduled Itself
13Chapter 8. The Measured Professional
3Part I
14Chapter 9. Hired and Fired by Machine
4Chapter 1. The Foreman in the Code
15Part IV
5Chapter 2. The Three Things a Boss Does
16Chapter 10. The Feeling of Being Watched
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6Part II
17Chapter 11. When the Number Is Wrong
7Chapter 3. The Always-On Eye
18Chapter 12. The Law Arrives
8Chapter 4. The Score
19Chapter 13. Fair to Whom?
9Chapter 5. The Workforce of One
20Chapter 14. What Should Stay Human
10Part III
21Conclusion. The Day That Answers Back
11Chapter 6. The Gig Laboratory
22Closing Credits
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