Then good luck getting a job at U-Haul; the US moving and storage company recently became the latest employer to introduce a nicotine-free hiring policy. This policy lets us use ‘wellness’ as an excuse to monitor and control our employees’ lives.”Forget the nanny state; over the past decade, we have seen the rise of the nanny employer. A 2018 government green paper called for “jobs that actively support and nurture health and wellbeing” and praised the likes of Barclays for its internal mental health campaign. And, last year, Boris Johnson proposed tax incentives to companies that support their employees’ mental health. While that may be funny, the fact that companies such as U-Haul are increasingly trying to mandate our personal lives really isn’t.

Source: The Guardian January 07, 2020 13:30 UTC