It’s a bit paradoxical the way that many workplaces view their employees’ productivity. If an employee works for 8 hours, monitored every minute, they might be productive, but they also might get burnt out from that. If you let them work remote and they only work for like, 5 of those hours, while doing other stuff around their house the rest of the time, they might actually get more solid work done! But the thought of this work style is maddening to bosses, and in this person’s case, is displeasing to the HR team. They don’t consider that you need to air out your thoughts a little bit; you need to give your brain room to think if you want to deliver positive contributions.
This person is frustrated by their company’s new mandate, and they’re far from the only person who’s noticed that Teams marks you as not being visibly active if you go more than 15 minutes without typing or clicking. Their company has decided that if they catch you being inactive, you’ll have to have a check-in call.
There’s plenty of room for malicious compliance beyond what this person did, which, as commenters noted, is ill-advised…
Author: Kayitsi.com
