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
2Prologue. The Shift That Scheduled Itself
3Part I
4Chapter 1. The Foreman in the Code
5Chapter 2. The Three Things a Boss Does
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6Part II
7Chapter 3. The Always-On Eye
8Chapter 4. The Score
9Chapter 5. The Workforce of One
10Part III
11Chapter 6. The Gig Laboratory
12Chapter 7. The Measured Body
13Chapter 8. The Measured Professional
14Chapter 9. Hired and Fired by Machine
15Part IV
16Chapter 10. The Feeling of Being Watched
17Chapter 11. When the Number Is Wrong
18Chapter 12. The Law Arrives
19Chapter 13. Fair to Whom?
20Chapter 14. What Should Stay Human
21Conclusion. The Day That Answers Back
22Closing Credits
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