Lee Duna to privacy@lemmy.caEnglish • 9 months agoIf you work remotely, your bosses are probably using software to track you. Here's how they'll catch you slacking off.www.businessinsider.comexternal-linkmessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up1101arrow-down112cross-posted to: privacyguides@lemmy.one
arrow-up189arrow-down1external-linkIf you work remotely, your bosses are probably using software to track you. Here's how they'll catch you slacking off.www.businessinsider.comLee Duna to privacy@lemmy.caEnglish • 9 months agomessage-square30fedilinkcross-posted to: privacyguides@lemmy.one
minus-squareCyborganismlinkfedilink36•9 months agoOh. Like MS Teams that changes my status if I stop moving my mouse for one minute?
minus-square@bionicjoey@lemmy.calinkfedilink22•edit-29 months agoI 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.
minus-square@corsicanguppy@lemmy.calinkfedilink19•9 months ago… handily defeated by placing your mouse on top of a wristwatch.
minus-square@camr_on@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink6•9 months ago!? How tf have I never heard or thought of this. Thanks for the massive increase in non-away time you just gave me
minus-squarefmstratlinkfedilinkEnglish3•9 months agoThere was a series on this. I think the video on a phone worked best.
minus-square@LeftHandedWave@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish3•9 months agoOr putting something heavy on the left shift key.
minus-square@freebread@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish3•9 months agoSound plan- I personally run a script that toggles numlock every few minutes.
minus-square@tacosplease@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•9 months agoYou can also get a little mouse dongle for a few bucks that plugs into a USB port and tells the computer to wiggle the mouse every few seconds.
Oh. Like MS Teams that changes my status if I stop moving my mouse for one minute?
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.
… handily defeated by placing your mouse on top of a wristwatch.
!? How tf have I never heard or thought of this. Thanks for the massive increase in non-away time you just gave me
There was a series on this. I think the video on a phone worked best.
Or putting something heavy on the left shift key.
Sound plan- I personally run a script that toggles numlock every few minutes.
You can also get a little mouse dongle for a few bucks that plugs into a USB port and tells the computer to wiggle the mouse every few seconds.