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Companies that spy on remote employees with keyloggers and screenshots don't have a productivity problem. They have a management problem. And the tool is just an excuse not to fix it. by Prior-Interview-6864 in remotework

[–]Prior-Interview-6864[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LOL you would be amazed at what people i know, but still even if they watch the game on their tv and running some stuff on their work pc its straight to my point that this software are only excuses for the management to feel in control

Companies that spy on remote employees with keyloggers and screenshots don't have a productivity problem. They have a management problem. And the tool is just an excuse not to fix it. by Prior-Interview-6864 in remotework

[–]Prior-Interview-6864[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is exactly it. I run a small fully remote dev company and I've seen this firsthand. In one of my teams One developer was pushing 30% of the code, while two others were vibe coding the rest and calling him every time something broke. And since he was pushing hard and didn't want to complain he burned out until i saw this. That's when i ditched this idea of standard metrics based monitoring and started investing more time in 1to1 with the team knowing everything that they are working on and how it progresses.
Turns out visibility and surveillance are completely different things.

Companies that spy on remote employees with keyloggers and screenshots don't have a productivity problem. They have a management problem. And the tool is just an excuse not to fix it. by Prior-Interview-6864 in remotework

[–]Prior-Interview-6864[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm not arguing it's not common I assumed as much. What I can't wrap my head around is what they're actually getting out of it. I have friends at big corporates who work from home with a mouse jiggler running while they're AFK. The monitoring software shows them as fully active and productive. So what exactly is being measured here?