‘time theft’
Right. Treating human beings like robots where any ineffeciancy or time taken to not focus on corporate overlords is bad.
Fuck 'em.
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
Man, what sort of
sweatshopindustry is this so I can avoid it?IT
I don’t know if this is a joke or not…
I am genuinely not joking. We on-boarded this bullshit:
fuck with the sensor
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)
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
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.
Pretty sure IR lasers fry cameras - set one up in the robots path
Best manager ever. Doesn’t chit chat and cleans the floor.
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 -_-
I like how there’s a ball on top, so you know where to kick it
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.
That was dystopian as hell to read.
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.
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.
Late stage capitalism is now turning inward. What a time to be alive.
Just another reason to keep away from shitty offices then!
People just need to befriend the IT dept. Who do you think is having to run this shit? Easy to bypass with a beer.
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.
So, in other words… Big Brother is watching
Cancer tech.
