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The grim world of office spyware

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I personally feel a company that is so nitpicking in its treatment of employees is shooting itself in the foot. Perhaps the accountant had saved them a million dollars by taking initiative and doing their job properly over the years? Now, there is zero motivation to do so. After this episode, the other employees will see problems and stay intentionally quiet.

And thus, another version of "quiet quitting" is forked.

A manager that has no clue what tasks are on the plate fir their team, and what effort these roughly represent, needs... - this odious software - to get fired for incompetence

It’s very silly for work from home people. Nothing stopping you from using a personal device at home. One thing is to stop phishing/malware but tracking at home when you can just use a personal device is silly.

The tracking might also check if you are doing anything on the company system. Hence a market for mouse jigglers to give the impression your work computer is in use.

You absolutely can't "just use a personal device" at home at a lot of larger companies. I mean you can try, but mostly you will just not be able to connect to the network, and if you do manage to get through you will probably be fired.

Soon we will start seeing software that randomly reads various Company WEB Sites.

I would guess many people here can use wget(1) in combination with other utilities to fake this software out. I checked, timecamp is available for Linux.

A key scolio emerges in expressions like

> allowed... to flourish a list detailing the thousands of productive hours his team had spent in [(front of) office automation software]

: is not evaluation duly based on productivity (results)?

We'd hope. I can imagine HR pulling reports of people who didn't seem to be staring at Serious Things long enough each day. I can also imagine being asked "how did you finish that ticket in only 2hr?" Answer: I'm a 10X devloper, of course (I kid, I am not, but I am disgusted by the idea that logging everything is required, instead of just, you know, talking to your employees - but who has time for that, eh?)

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