• plaguesandbacon@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    I’ve worked in IT for 20+ years, only in cases where management thinks a particular person isn’t working, it doesn’t happen. Cost plus IT departments are generally understaffed and don’t have time to monitor this kind of thing makes it a non-starter

  • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    It’s insane how the metrics used to spy on employees have almost nothing to do with productivity!

    Someone using a pad of paper and a pencil to take notes, voice-to-text to write email, or who is extremely skilled at using their office software will show up as “unproductive” using these metrics.

    It quite literally rewards people for being inefficient. A task that takes a productive worker 10 minutes to complete can be dragged on for an hour so they look busy.

    This level of micromanagement is a red flag that the managers aren’t doing their jobs.

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      11 months ago

      I like the idea that this is somehow used as tracking by managers. Everyone in my workplace just agrees it’s a bug in Teams and that you can’t rely on someone’s online status icon to know if they’re around.