The cat-and-mouse game has spurred a wider debate in corporate America about whether screentime and the click-clacking of keyboards are effective yardsticks to measure productivity amid a boom in remote work. — AP
WASHINGTON: A US banking giant fired more than a dozen employees for “simulating keyboard activity”, highlighting a battle within productivity-obsessed corporate America to tame a culture of faking work with gizmos such as mouse jigglers.
The sackings by Wells Fargo come as employers use sophisticated tools – popularly called “tattleware” or “bossware” – on company-issued devices to monitor productivity in the age of hybrid work that took off after the Covid-19 pandemic.
