rticularly demoralizing and stress inducing, is the Big Brother concept. Companies have devised a means for employees' computers to spy on them, monitoring number of key strokes per minute, phone calls, and even time spent in the bathroom. "Last year the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment estimated that computers are being used to keep tabs on six million working Americans" (Miller 43). While this is a ploy to increase productivity, it is having the opposite effect.
Job stress and dissatisfaction invariably lead to depression. In one instance a Maryland firefighter became so despondent after arriving at the sce
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