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Workplace AI Surveillance Cartoon: Data-Driven Eavesdropping

  • Writer: Ravi
    Ravi
  • Dec 9, 2025
  • 1 min read

Updated: 5 days ago

Cartoon showing a procurement head briefing vendors about AI-enabled coffee machines that must generate weekly office gossip reports by department, with employees gossiping near a traditional coffee machine in the background.

The Scenario: In this workplace AI surveillance cartoon, we witness the ultimate over-engineered solution to understanding office politics.


A procurement head briefs vendors on a new RFP requirement: AI-enabled coffee machines designed to generate weekly gossip reports by department.


It captures the corporate obsession with tracking the "untrackable" and the hilarity of attempting to turn watercooler talk into a structured, automated data set.


The Observation: This narrative deconstructs the shift from human leadership to algorithmic monitoring.


At Kaapi with Ravi, we observe that organizations are increasingly looking for technological shortcuts to "measure" morale rather than building actual trust.


Workplace AI surveillance: The only corporate initiative that turns a simple coffee break into a sworn deposition for the HR department.

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