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Understanding Digital Activity Tracking and Employee Expectations

Digital activity has become a hot topic with leadership lately. We’re being told that if you don’t show consistent online activity, you could be flagged as “inactive,” which honestly has people worried about job security.

I’m trying to understand how this actually works in real life. We use the restroom, take lunch, attend meetings, step away to think, or work offline at times. Does that count against us? Are we really expected to show nonstop keystrokes for 8 hours straight?

Is anyone familiar with how this digital activity or logging process is tracked? Would appreciate insight from anyone who’s dealt with this or knows how it’s supposed to work.


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They don’t track as much as you think

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Post ID: @hk+1kcqbhzag

Operations has Celonis, task mining software. So yes, they are tracking most of what we do! They say they only look at in aggregate.

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Post ID: @he+1kcqbhzag

I’ve seen it. It’s true. It’s like a green bar line with tick marks for clicks.

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Post ID: @d9+1kcqbhzag

First of all, digital tracking has to be requested through HR and you have to have a good business case for requesting it. Second of all, they can detect mouse jigglers, keyboard clickers, whatever else so if that's the route some of you decide to go...good luck with that! If you aren't busy, talk to your manager and ask what you can do to help others.

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Post ID: @d2+1kcqbhzag

Person keeps coming back and upvoting their own posts and downvoting people who disagree - mentally deranged.

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Post ID: @cy+1kcqbhzag

It’s just fake rumors stirred up the same miserable person who likely has been laid off for years but can’t get evict Charlie from his head

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Post ID: @cx+1kcqbhzag

This is yet another example of the horrible leadership we have in the company. There are essentially rumors of activity tracking. What are the expectations? What and how is that measured? Is it realistic? RTO and hours in office are easy to measure an be achieved pretty easily. People have different work patterns. We’re not all in meetings all day or in some app doing things.

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Post ID: @c9+1kcqbhzag

Same troll from two week ago

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Post ID: @am+1kcqbhzag

@aa They know exactly what they want, less US-based employees.

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Post ID: @ab+1kcqbhzag

But wait, aren’t we supposed to be collaborating with our coworkers and white boarding out things? Leadership is lost and doesn’t know what they want. Looks like Amazon is gonna sell a lot of mouse gigglers this Christmas.

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Post ID: @aa+1kcqbhzag

Just avoid the human detector and you’re fine. Not sure why you keep posting about things that don’t exist.

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Post ID: @a9+1kcqbhzag

Can't speak exactly to how it works, but as an exempt employee who tends to work a very slow day of the week, where I have multiple hours without any real work to do, I can't just lock my machine and be away, available at a moment's notice if paged (even though that's how we used to manage it for years). I've been flagged twice this year for being "away too much".

So I'm a human mouse jiggler on those days, rather than a trusted professional who has their sh-t locked down.

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Post ID: @a2+1kcqbhzag

Not sure. I spend 8 hrs collaborating around the water cooler and don't even log into my PC. CEO said it was the most important thing we do, and I always listen to the dear leader. Don't like it, call Hudson Yards or submit a loudspeaker.

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