""So, I work from home and my employer just started time tracking," Tim began in his video. "It takes screenshots every 10 minutes or so, tracks my mouse activity, keyboard activity, the URLs I visit, and what percentage of time I spend on doing whatever." Tim explained that despite his company's best efforts to monitor the work that he's doing and ensure that he's actually completing it on time, at the end of the day, none of that changes what he does."
"While some companies have measures to motivate their employees, there isn't much they can do to ensure that the work is being completed and that procrastination isn't happening. However, in a TikTok video, an employee named Tim claimed that his job was doing their very best to make sure that he wasn't slacking off, but their methods weren't the best. Tim insisted that his company was using "dystopian" software to micromanage him."
A work-from-home employee encountered employer-implemented time-tracking software that captures screenshots approximately every ten minutes, records mouse and keyboard activity, logs visited URLs, and computes percentages of time spent on tasks. The monitoring generated perceptions of being "dystopian" despite continued task completion and managerial goals to ensure productivity. Concern exists that such surveillance could intensify as technology advances. Management expertise indicates that excessive monitoring undermines worker autonomy, increases dissatisfaction and turnover, and can foster a more complacent workforce. Micromanagement through invasive surveillance does not appear to be an effective method to inspire sustained hard work.
Read at YourTango
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]