'Put A Camera Up Your A**': Billionaire Reveals Fallout From Enforcing Basic Accountability For Remote Workers

Mark Tanos Sun, August 30, 2026 at 1:16 AM UTC

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'Put A Camera Up Your A**': Billionaire Reveals Fallout From Enforcing Basic Accountability For Remote Workers ©(Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images)

Nearly two dozen employees quit within a week of learning their boss would be watching them work from home.

Billionaire trial lawyer John Morgan, the founder of law firm Morgan & Morgan, said 23 of his remote staffers resigned during the first week after he installed monitoring cameras on their work computers, according to a video clip from The Iced Coffee Hour podcast. Forbes lists Morgan among its 2026 ranking of the world's billionaires.

Morgan described the policy in blunt terms during the recorded remarks. "We're going to put a camera on your computer. We're going to put a camera up your ass. We won't look at you. It'll be a pixel," he said in the clip posted on X. (RELATED: Fox News Called Out By Former Employees For Covid Hypocrisy)

The wave of departures told him something other than a rejection of surveillance, Morgan argued. "It's not that they don't want to work from home. They don't want to work," he said in the video.

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Morgan's remarks drew sharp criticism in the replies under the clip. One user told him to be "measuring results only," while another called him a "condescending dumba** micromanaging boomer pr*ck" and said a manager who cannot trust employees without a camera on them "failed as a hiring manager." A third user argued bosses should "measure people by their production, not their time," and another drew a darker comparison, noting that the people watched on camera all day are "prisoners."

Workers who stayed on under the arrangement agreed to tighter oversight. Morgan said the company tracks keystrokes and assigns each qualifying employee a productivity score, monitoring them more closely than it otherwise would, according to the clip.

His takeaway pointed past his own firm. Morgan said the episode confirmed a pattern he sees across the workforce, telling the account that a large share of people would rather avoid work altogether.

Morgan built Morgan & Morgan into one of the largest personal injury operations in the country after founding it in 1988, and he has aired similar views on employee accountability in other public settings. In a July appearance on the Success Story podcast with host Scott D. Clary, he defended the same camera-and-keystroke system and cast remote workers who resisted it as unwilling to answer for their output.

Morgan has pressed the accountability theme while promoting his book, "Life is Luck," which argues that results follow from sustained effort rather than circumstance.

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