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Yet even as policymakers debate the issue, the framing itself risks missing the deeper problem.

Rachel Reeves’s decision to impose a £25 billion “jobs tax” on employers in last year’s Budget remains her single biggest blunder, and that’s saying something.

A third of UK employers are using “bossware” technology to track workers’ activity, with the most common methods including monitoring emails and web browsing.