Increasing surveillance of work-at-home employees could trigger a backlash or “employee activism” in the next three to five years. A recent survey of Australia’s largest corporations explored how the country’s senior executives would tackle a range of issues around employee health and social justice issues. Around 61 percent of senior executives in Australia told global law firm Herbert Smith Freehills’ that they expected a rise in employee activism over issues such as increased surveillance of home-based workers (40 percent of respondents), pay and benefits (36 percent), environmental, social, and governance issues (36 percent), and vaccine status (15 percent). With the onset of the pandemic in 2020, the survey found that many managers delegated increased authority to remote-based employees to manage their own workloads. However, sales of software to monitor activity did increase. One company in Australia saw a 200 percent increase in requests for trials of its product. Such software …