If you work remotely, your bosses are probably using software to track you. Here's how they'll catch you slacking off.
If you work remotely, your bosses are probably using software to track you. Here's how they'll catch you slacking off.
Bosses use employee-tracking software to catch remote workers slacking off on the job. We asked one tracking company what their technology does.
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Oh. Like MS Teams that changes my status if I stop moving my mouse for one minute?
35 0 ReplyI like the idea that this is somehow used as tracking by managers. Everyone in my workplace just agrees it's a bug in Teams and that you can't rely on someone's online status icon to know if they're around.
22 0 Reply... handily defeated by placing your mouse on top of a wristwatch.
19 0 Reply!? How tf have I never heard or thought of this. Thanks for the massive increase in non-away time you just gave me
6 0 ReplyThere was a series on this. I think the video on a phone worked best.
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Or putting something heavy on the left shift key.
4 0 ReplySound plan- I personally run a script that toggles numlock every few minutes.
3 0 ReplyYou can also get a little mouse dongle for a few bucks that plugs into a USB port and tells the computer to wiggle the mouse every few seconds.
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