These stories describe wildly less advanced, less technologically complex, and less invasive tracking than the Reddit post.

Reddit post is made up. Good fiction writing.

Reminds me of having to pace the reading of a memo in Snowcrash, so the system didn't flag the employee as either skimming or loafing.

Stories that describe tracking basic activity, sure. Nothing about Chase scanning your home for "TVs, game consoles, and several other things."

The poster expects us to believe that Chase doesn't want their employees having "TVs"? What, are they going to hire an all-Amish workforce?

The post is a little too "Reddit" to take seriously.