“Many tools are first deployed in Latin America, where labor laws are less strictly enforced, according to Ayden Férdeline, a tech policy researcher in Berlin and a co-author of the report.”
Bossware vendors test their tools in countries where labor law is weakly enforced, then sell them everywhere. The product line covers biometric attendance, blacklist checks against government databases and software that predicts who will quit. One Rappi courier works 14-hour days for a $25 weekly bonus. A vendor of resignation prediction says it is not responsible for how its insights get used.