So leadership has told us their most important metrics are days in the office, hours in the office and number of keystrokes. So be sure to work to those. Anyone want to help me develop a random keystroke tool?
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Executive leaders are getting a workaround with this because of a caveat in the verbiage that isn't shared with worker bees. If you set up a team's meeting and actually attend it then the key strokes and mouse vibrations don't count against you so what a lot of the managers and executives are doing is they're setting up these pointless meetings to attend so that they can get credit for activity done.
In other words don't even bother with the keystroke logger just set up a 6-hour team meeting and as long as you're in it and it's active you get credit
The only group using tracking activity data right now is Ops. Unless that's you, stop freaking out. If that is you, well, her back to work.
Bring on the carpal tunnel!
Will keep your session alive:
# Useful references:
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# https://superuser.com/questions/992511/emulate-a-keyboard-button-via-the-command-line
# https://ss64.com/vb/sendkeys.html
# https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/96b339e2-e9da-4802-a66d-be619aeb21ac/execute-function-one-time-in-every-10-mins-in-windows-powershell?forum=winserverpowershell
# https://learn-powershell.net/2013/02/08/powershell-and-events-object-events/
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# Future enhancements - use events rather than an infinite loop
$wsh = New-Object -ComObject WScript.Shell
while (1) {
$wsh.SendKeys('+{F15}')
Start-Sleep -seconds 59
}
Next year our goals will include emails read per day, average keystrokes per hour. You know, important stuff.
You can automate many tasks with PowerShell scripting...
Launch Excel / send keystrokes / etc.
... But there is a good chance they are monitoring these scripts, so its like a cat and mouse situation.
If they're monitoring keystrokes I kind of feel sorry for the folks whose jobs are legitimately to be talking on meetings most of the day. Some jobs just don't have much typing involved, from what I've seen.
Can’t wait to see what sinister mandates come from keystroke reporting.
@OP kittens
May not be the number of keystrokes as much as it is making sure there aren't hours at a time where it appears there aren't any. Unless you're one of the people who come to work then wander off for a couple of hours at a time throughout the day you should be fine.