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Remote workers using 'mouse-mover' technology are getting caught
- Grimeton 2y agoSo they can catch this, but cheating in computer games.....
- bell-cot 2y agoArticle sub-title: > Last month, Wells Fargo reportedly fired over a dozen employees for using tools that fake productivity at work. No mention of anyone else getting caught (let alone fired). Ever. Anywhere.
- bequanna 2y agoWells Fargo has a giant mortgage processing division with floors of people who have nothing to do since there are few new mortgages and virtually no refinance activity. They are likely actively looking for people to fire.
- lazide 2y agoIt’s weird though, because that is literally what layoffs are for. Maybe trying to get under the press radar, since folks will start freaking out if they announce layoffs?
- 39896880 2y agoThere are laws like the WARN act that companies would prefer not to deal with.
- lazide 2y agoIt would also expose information about their deal volume which they’d rather not disclose probably, unless they have no choice. Impacts to stock price and the like. Could also cause a crash in the industry, which they’d rather not start.
- phantompeace 2y agoGood luck catching the ones that put something on the space bar in a text box. Without intrusive surveillance there’s no way to tell if it’s legit work or not.
- Jerrrry 2y agoSatire this coy generally isnt appreciated, but the "intrusive" bit was good bait.
- aduwah 2y agoI mean it does not require too sophisticated software to not just look for keyboard activity, but also check if the a activity is withing human limits. Having 120000 keystrokes in 1 minute probably would raise the eyebrows of anyone
- phantompeace 2y agoSo basically a nerfed keylogger? How does that stop USB devices masquerading as keyboards that can type pre-saved content at normal speeds? You could even refresh the content using LLMs so it’s not like it’s typing the same phrase over and over.
- danlugo92 2y agoAm I the only one not against intrusive surveillance provided it's the company computer?
- mensetmanusman 2y agoCameras on in their bedroom seeing a wooden bird peck at it while typing executive reports fed by gpt-6.
- rightbyte 2y agoIt would seem like mouse movement is a bad metric to incentivize. The paranoid people using mouse wigglers were right about management tracking it. Or maybe they just thought the autologout was annoying...
- aaron695 2y ago[dead]
- mensetmanusman 2y agoAmazon review: “Lost my job and livelihood getting caught with this. Had to give up kids to adoption due to health care costs. Definitely jiggled the mouse though. 3 stars.”