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Algorithmic management is a concept that encompasses a range of operational practices that use a variety of personal data to make decisions. While not new in academic literature, it is a new concept in EU law, introduced only in 2024 with the Platform Work Directive. Essentially, algorithmic management can be used in an organisation to do two different but interconnected things: monitor workers (health, physiological parameters, stress level etc) and make automated decisions about them (allocation of tasks, suspension, termination, increase or decrease of pay etc).