Employers often use workplace tracking apps to monitor frontline home health care workers, such as personal care aides, home health aides and certified nursing assistants. A team of Cornell researchers is exploring how these technologies can be used not to surveil workers, but to help them build solidarity and improve their working conditions.
Tech can empower home care workers, not just surveil them
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