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The First 'Performance Improvement Plan' Was Designed by Frederick Taylor in 1911

Frederick Taylor measured factory workers with stopwatches in 1911. Today, AI HR tools do the same to knowledge workers. Are algorithms modern Taylorism?

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Frederick Winslow Taylor stood on factory floors with a stopwatch measuring every worker's movement in 1911. Today's HR algorithms do the same thing — they just measure your Slack response time, codeb

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