That was Aretha Franklin in 1985.
The question was Who’s doing the looking -and who are they judging?
Fast-forward to now. Same question, and a new and pretty obvious application to the world of work. It began with the bosses, reluctant adopters of technology, using video calls to keep tabs on their reports. Then, very politely, battle commenced. Those reports staked-out their ground: they weren’t going to be back to five-days-out-of-five in the office.
They might have started off cowed, crouched over their laptops as their bosses held court from trophy-lined studies, but very soon those same reports warmed to Zooming and making judgements of their own. Bosses watch out: while you’re deciding who’s doing a decent job, those people on the screen are making the same decision about you!