Anecdotes: Company on a downward trend will tend to go all in on employee surveillance and analytics, other companies on an upward trajectory gives their emplo

Anecdotes: Company on a downward trend will tend to go all in on employee surveillance and analytics, other companies on an upward trajectory gives their employee much more freedom to do whatever they want. I have worked at both (and fortunately at the latter right now). It's hard to say which is the cause and which is the result.