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Workplace platforms and the affordances of the alleloptic vision

Asaf Darr & Gerhard Weber

Work in the Global Economy2025https://doi.org/10.1332/27324176y2025d000000051article
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This article explores the workplace consequences of the implementation of the alleloptic vision through Jira, a digital platform used to manage complex software development projects. The alleloptic vision means making it possible for all software workers and managers to mutually view work-related, self-reported data streaming in real time across the network. We demonstrate how the alleloptic vision promotes managerial surveillance and control of knowledge workers, but is also an occasion to enhance occupational autonomy and personal empowerment. We argue that the inherent tensions embedded in the alleloptic vision constitute its primary source of legitimation and help secure software workers’ consent to self-documentation. The alleloptic vision builds upon, and simultaneously extends, existing mechanisms of coordination and control and should be understood as one component of the broader framework of algorithmic control.

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@article{asaf2025,
  title        = {{Workplace platforms and the affordances of the alleloptic vision}},
  author       = {Asaf Darr & Gerhard Weber},
  journal      = {Work in the Global Economy},
  year         = {2025},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1332/27324176y2025d000000051},
}

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0.50

Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40

F · citation impact0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20
M · momentum0.50 × 0.15 = 0.07
V · venue signal0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03
R · text relevance †0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20

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