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A warning for anyone working at or thinking about working at JPMorgan Chase & Co. WADU is an acronym for Workforce Activity Data Utility.
Every employee at JPMC has a profile in the WADU database.
I think everyone expects their employer to track them to some extent.
It has also become very common place for employers to record audio and video at the office.
WADU is on a different level.
It is an artificial intelligence & machine learning system for workforce human behavior.
Starting at the moment you arrive to the building, WADU is tracking you using facial and speech recognition.
Most JPMC offices and branches have been outfitted with some of the best HD AV security cameras.
Whenever you are at your desk, know that there is a HD camera tracking you the entire time.
Every manager gets access to a dashboard that lists all the metrics about their subordinates.
The productivity metrics about an employee start getting updated immediately after an employee logs into the system.
If the employee is at the office, two bio-metrics are available, attention/focus and stress.
The bio-metric feeds are updated from the facial and behavioral tracking.
Having a bad day?
WADU has already noticed this and alerted your manager.
Not working at your usual pace?
WADU has already noticed this and alerted your manager.
Did something you normally dont do?
Its possible WADU flagged it as suspicious and alerted your manager.
WADU is also why they are pushing RTO or return to office so hard.
Upper management does not care if some employees are more productive when they are working from home.
They want everyone back in the office as much as possible so that their WADU profiles are being refined.
Enhancing their insight into you is more important to them than better productivity from working from home.
A lot of teams are now required to come in two to three days per week.
Director level and higher are required to come in four to five days per week.
Upper management wants to see everyone at all levels back in the office five days a week.
They have invested millions into the WADU system, and they want to get a return on that investment.
That only happens whenever people are in the office as much as possible.
WADU is also watching and listening whenever you are working from home.
If you are using an issued Chromebook, those permissions are already conveniently accepted for you.
Youll notice that your web camera will flash right after login.
This is not an initial connection flash.
Your web camera just took a burst shot of pictures and sent them to WADU.
The pictures will be scanned for anything deemed unprofessional or unsafe.
Youll also notice that your microphone will go hot shortly after login.
Anything you say will be processed by WADU.
All background noises will be processed by WADU.
Say something bad about your boss or other superior?
Say something bad about another co-worker?
Have a moment of anger or frustration?
Your manager can also connect and listen to your audio feed live.
WADU is also able to detect keyboard pokers/bumpers and mouse jigglers/movers.
Your manager will be notified that your under suspicion of faking productivity.
They will then connect to your session and see what is happening live.
Action will be taken if the suspicion is confirmed.
WADU determines how productive you are by analyzing a variety of metrics about your session input.
This includes words typed, mouse clicks, app activity, and many other things.
The analysis also determines if someone is a unique contributor or if they are a regular worker.
In overall rankings, unique contributors are always ranked higher than regular workers.
The same analysis can also determine who is essentially dead weight.
These people are ranked last.
You may have noticed at some point that you started getting job postings sent to your personal email.
Even if it was just browsing, it can negatively affect the employee who clicked the link.
If you installed the JPMC workplace app on your phone, you have connected your phone to WADU.
Right now, the only way to reserve a desk at the office is to use the workplace app.
It will probably still be coming soon in 2040.
Upper management pushes a narrative that all this surveillance is required to safeguard the firm against insider threats.
While that may be partially true, the main reason is to train and refine the AI/ML system.
They want every employee profile to be as accurate and as detailed as possible.
They say we are not supposed to use anything from an employees WADU profile to make employment decisions.
It is kind of hard to ignore a ranked list of subordinates with productivity forecasting.
Andrew Yang tried to warn us this was coming, he should have listened.
Hey, I am an anti-AI blogger that AI probably can’t replace.
