In case you weren't aware, they're also looking at activity levels-- So now they're expecting you to click and email and teams and what the f**k else they're looking at to complain about you. And naturally nothing has been communicated, you know know how they measure or what they measure.
F this company.
This came up earlier this year and I told my manager that the performance of what is essentially a knowledge worker cannot be captured accurately through mouse movement and keystrokes. That type of work involves a lot of research and hands on work (e.g., labs, tutorials, etc.), some of which is found on sites that WF blocks. Because of that, my time is split between both my personal and corporate devices to do the work I need to do.
Activity report is real y'all.
@ak tech work isn’t repetitive. You’re either doing office apps, in an IDE, web etc.
They are going to be primarily looking at people who are supposedly working yet have no mouse movements, clicks, phone calls or anything else for hours at a time. You know, the same people who cry about having to work at their office because they are soooo much more productive at home. Those people. So unless you're trying to game the system by not actually doing anything all day odds are this won't impact you. As others have said, it's the people who are never available, never respond to pings or emails, and who generally seem to think they should get paid to sit at home and do nothing all day that should be planning for alternate employment.
I was warned this was coming from my manager back in February. He’s already seen the reports.
I know of a few people who have been spoken to about it on other teams.
It’s real. And it is already being used to build cases to fire people. Contractors will be smacked first as it is easier to dump them for not working the hours billed. But it will without a doubt get some employees fired.
App usage stats by user appears as user experience measurements
being used as productivity hourly measurement
You have to be in the most repetitive job for mouse and keyboard activity would correlate to productivity. Come back with some actual insight OP
True or not, this is hard to apply to IC’s. You might be able to gain insight, but the idea of it determining if you cut people based on it feels like a slippery slope and class action. You have rights as individual contributors and there’s no requirement on any of that. There was not when you signed that agreement.. Don’t get me wrong. I hate people that take advantage of the system when they overdo it, but you do gain some freedom as a salary employee, and you also rarely have a button down from the top order of daily procedures.
My job isn't moving a mouse.
On the one hand, that su-ks.
On the other hand, everyone on my team takes 20 minutes to respond to pings. And I know I'm not alone.
Keyboard and mouse activity.
@OP I’ve tried warning people already. This is a very real thing and management is looking for the right way to formally roll it out. Expect a lot of headaches in the coming months.
This is 100% true. LB’s team is running the reports.
More rumors and innuendo - probably from the same person