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The impact of perceived algorithmic management on employees' physical and mental health: a chain mediation analysis of frustrated work autonomy and workplace AI replacement anxiety
Originally published 2026-09-01 · Frontiers in Public Health
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpubh.2026.1877221 ↗
AI / system type
Perceived algorithmic management and workplace AI-replacement anxiety
Workplace evidenceExamines workers, organizations or AI at work. Participants are not necessarily parents; family benefits are not established by this evidence alone.
The AI connection
System or context examined: Perceived algorithmic management and workplace AI-replacement anxiety. Algorithmic management/control is not assumed to be machine learning or generative AI.
Why this reading matters
The reading brings frustrated autonomy and AI-replacement anxiety in employee health into a concrete discussion of humane work during technological change. It offers employee questionnaire study evidence or analysis, not a promise of organizational or family benefit.
Workplace evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
The workplace lens is frustrated autonomy and AI-replacement anxiety in employee health. Source setting or population: 338 employees across multiple industries in China directly affected by algorithmic management. Parenting and child-development outcomes are not inferred from the workplace evidence.
Examines workers, organizations or AI at work. Participants are not necessarily parents; family benefits are not established by this evidence alone.
Editorial reading guide · Kindness
What should change in the workplace when people feel controlled and replaceable?
This employee questionnaire study examines frustrated autonomy and AI-replacement anxiety in employee health. Its TRICK home is Kindness, an editorial reading path rather than a claim that the paper tests the full framework.
Study context
338 employees across multiple industries in China directly affected by algorithmic management
Age / stage: Adult workplace context; no child age range inferred
Read with three questions
- What should change in the workplace when people feel controlled and replaceable?
- What do this study’s design and population — 338 employees across multiple industries in China directly affected by algorithmic management — allow you to infer about another workplace?
- When considering frustrated autonomy and AI-replacement anxiety in employee health, which decisions would need employee input before applying this reading to a working family’s circumstances?
Keep the limits in view
Self-reported health and statistical mediation do not establish causation or clinical illness; local work conditions and selection limit generalization.
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Zheng Ma; Xingzi Chen; Binhua Jing (2026). The impact of perceived algorithmic management on employees' physical and mental health: a chain mediation analysis of frustrated work autonomy and workplace AI replacement anxiety Frontiers in Public Health. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2026.1877221
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