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How are they different?

Jane is found to be falling asleep on the factory floor. Or Jane is found to be falling asleep while delivering packages.

In both cases the feed might be recorded, abused in terms of privacy expectations, sent to an AI algorithm... And in both cases she may get reprimanded.

Exactly the situation in any cashdesk, for instance at banks. One or even multiple cameras per cashier.

And what about having cctv on every work station in a factory? This is regularly used in a high cost scenarios for quality assurance/tracking. And it will be used much more when technology is cheaper / easier to deploy.

Is this kind of supervision ok?

What is the fundamental problem it is trying to fix? Does it work? Can it be done better by other means?

Presumably the camera is aimed at the assembly line, not at the individual member of staff.