Beth Comstock, the way-smart CMO at GE, points out a good article from the Harvard Business Review about the use of wearable technology in business. Although it starts with the thorough instrumentation of professional athletes in training, the article explicitly raises the specter of Frederick Taylor’s pioneering (though later questioned) time-motion studies done at Western Electric’s Hawthorne plant.
It also adds a neat new word to my vocabulary, and probably to yours: physiolytics.