Ifeoma Ajunwa

"When I talk about worker quantification, Im really putting forth this theory that we now have really a paradigm where the worker is reduced to numbers, theyre reduced to quantified data points in a manner and to a degree not previously seen in history. Yes, worker quantification is an iteration of Taylorism, so its not completely new, right? With Taylorism, at the start of the 19th century, you had Francis Winslow Taylor really pushing this idea that to become more efficient, to become more productive, managers needed to really understand the work process to the minutiae, they really needed to go out into the factories, the warehouses and watch what workers were doing and try to quantify the work tasks. In doing so, really attempt to standardize the work tasks such that any worker can then be taught how to do it efficiently and as productively as possible."