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[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

It's insane how the metrics used to spy on employees have almost nothing to do with productivity!

Someone using a pad of paper and a pencil to take notes, voice-to-text to write email, or who is extremely skilled at using their office software will show up as “unproductive” using these metrics.

It quite literally rewards people for being inefficient. A task that takes a productive worker 10 minutes to complete can be dragged on for an hour so they look busy.

This level of micromanagement is a red flag that the managers aren't doing their jobs.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Oh. Like MS Teams that changes my status if I stop moving my mouse for one minute?

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

... handily defeated by placing your mouse on top of a wristwatch.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I 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.

[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 years ago

This should really be illegal (I think it is in the EU)