💬 Quoted…​​ “Productivity theater.”

From custom mouse jigglers to fake PowerPoint presentations to MacGyver-inspired innovations, workers nationwide are sharing different ways to outsmart companies that track their employees’ productivity.

• Since early 2020, about a third of all medium-to-large US companies have adopted some kind of worker-surveillance system, bringing the overall share of employers using such systems to every two out of three.

🛢️📈 Stat of the Day: Natural gas prices in California are currently over 5x higher than the national average.

🤯 Did You Know?... No human has beaten a computer in a chess tournament in 17 years.

📖 Worth a Read: The entrepreneur dreaming of a factory of unlimited organs → (MIT Technology Review)