• Singletona082@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    ‘time theft’

    Right. Treating human beings like robots where any ineffeciancy or time taken to not focus on corporate overlords is bad.

    Fuck 'em.

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    16 days ago

    My workplace installed desk presence sensors and has a stupid little robot roomba thing that drives up and down the rows documenting who’s in their seats.

    Edit: this is the damn robot that we have to be seen by: https://www.globaldws.com/virbrix

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            16 days ago

            So obviously people at my work did this. They sent out an email warning us that abuse of organization property would be met with progressive discipline (like LWOP and dismissal)

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              having worked in a call center my response would be lol

              these jobs can’t keep enough people as is, you ‘d have to kill someone or fuck the ceos wife to get fired

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                I don’t know about that. Where I’m at, the job market is not great so people stay where I work (me included) because the option is here or find another industry. The colleague of mine who taped a piece of paper over the robots sensors got suspended 2 weeks without pay for it.

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          More like makes false negatives and marked me 3 times this year (so far) as absent which required a total of 15 minutes in useless frantic Teams calls to verify my location to my manager across the country -_-

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    16 days ago

    there will be a $4.5 billion employee-monitoring-technology market, mostly in North America

    Toxic workplaces being toxic. That said, workplace monitoring is mostly not allowed here.

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    17 days ago

    It results in a lot of performance theater. If being at your desk, key presses, mouse clicks and eye movements are the most important then you can expect a lot of long winded lists, reports and mails. There’ll be people doing thousands of things manually instead of thinking about it and automate things. So much productivity measured and nothing gets done.

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    16 days ago

    If they only spent this time and money on training the managers to…well, manage their employees.

    Stop thinking “time at your desk” is a kpi and start measuring results instead. It cuts the crap employees that are worthless and that in and of itself is a reward to good employees and team morale.

    I would rather have a productive employee get results in 4 hours and then leave than a crap employee who needs the full day to get the same job done. Then the good employee will learn to streamline it so they can get the job done in 3 hours and I win because my efficiency went up. They win because they get another hour of their life back daily…or dare I say, they want more work and I give it to them along with a pay increase.

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    17 days ago

    Late stage capitalism is now turning inward. What a time to be alive.

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      16 days ago

      Short simple scripts can handle key presses, you can even add a little logic to ensure it doesn’t follow the same pattern and give you a workday countdown to boot.