“What we demonstrate to our customers is that, ‘Hey, we fix your training and safety concerns and see — your workforce is happier, more productive, efficient, and they stay longer.’ That's what the approach is, not the other way around.” Tyson Ventures, the venture capitalist branch of Tyson Foods, was one of the initial funders of Mentore, along with Monozukuri Ventures and Threshold Impact Fund.“The Iterate Labs safety wearables and analytics platform will provide us insight into how each employee responds to ergonomic and process changes by digitizing individual worker motion,” said Chris McCune, JBS USA Fed Beef Safety Director, in the press release.“Up until now, collecting and analyzing data at the operator level was very challenging, but now we have the ability to improve the health and safety of every single one of our team members.” Kiran declined to disclose details of how Mentore’s system is being used by any specific company, including the nature of their partnership with Mentore, the number of watches currently using the app and the locations of the plants where the application has been tested or implemented.That dashboard not only includes safety metrics, but also an “active score,” described on the dashboard as “a metric of productivity measured by the ratio measured in percentage of intense active motion vs. mild active motion…It is a measure of individual productivity and engagement.” Experts, workers' groups wary of increased monitoring Kiran estimated that 80% of the workplaces using Mentore’s app are unionized.Amazon has been criticized by workers and privacy experts for using AI applications to track employees and discipline or fire them when the app detects underperformance."