Employee discovers work tracker on laptop, confronts shady managers: 'Someone somewhere is watching idle time carefully'

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    New pop-up on the work laptop that began today. The 1-3 managers above say no one knows where this came from. This instance popped up during a 1-on-1 Teams call.
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    Please select why you were away from the computer. Additional Information (Required by one or more options): Break Meeting Personal Lunch Other *Dialog will display after 10 Minute(s).
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    Hoffi1 19 hr. ago If your manager can't tell you what it is, I would not interact with it and bring your computer to IT for a check-up.
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    Squeaker2160 17 hr. ago. edited 15 hr. ago Oh yes. Take it to IT worried about a virus. This will force them to come clean. Edit to.add: be kind to IT as the commenter's point out below. I spent many years in IT. They are just the messengers.
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    shapeofthings 20 hr. ago The answer is always p ping
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    Insufferable_Entity. 20 hr. ago "In a meeting 1-on- 1 Teams meeting covering company business." Let the sort out their overly aggressive spy software. FYI dont trust that computer. They might even engage the camera and/ot microphone without your knowledge.
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    regprenticer 20 hr. ago Dialog will display after 10 minutes Ten minutes of no key strokes, no mouse activity, of MS Teams showing you as amber? There's a big difference between all these things, I have real problems getting teams to flick to green even when I'm active on the machine.
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    27Christian27 OP. 20 hr. ago Teams was red for busy for in a meeting
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    mwing95 . 20 hr. ago Everyone saying managers lying may be right, but it could also be HR and payroll rolling out a change before communicating with the company effectively. Or it could have been a task for Tech to do and they enabled it ahead of schedule. Could be so many things
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    All that to say though someone, somewhere is watching idle time carefully and I personally wouldn't want to work in an environment like that
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    ASwarmofKoala 19 hr. ago See if they sanitize their inputs.
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    azscorpion 19 hr. ago Contact your Helpdesk and let them know there is spyware on your computer and it needs to be replaced. Do this repeatedly until someone admits why it was installed.
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    elvbierbaum 19 hr. ago I have two people under me that are contracted through a 3rd party company in another country. We all WFH and use Teams for communication. Our job is not on computers for the entire shift as we are in tech support, so we do random testing offline and that can take hours in some instances, depending on the testing.
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    This 3rd party company tracks clicks and screen time. My company does not do this. This same company provides employees for our Sales team that IS on their computers the entire shift.
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    I received an email from their manager at this company asking if one of my employee's "did his work yesterday" because they saw he had done some online searching. I told the manager he completed his work for the day so I do not care that he was online searching (h☐
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    I was watching youtube while replying to him). They approved his time. I told him that our department has slow days and I do not expect them to just click around on their computers when we are slow. I expect them to keep their sanity and take a break. They've made note of this and have stopped checking their screens, at least for my team.
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    SE7ENfeet 20 hr. ago Your managers are lying
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    S☐ FreeLove 20 hr. ago Your managers are lying and likely all get a report weekly, maybe even daily for your direct manager regarding this, I guarantee it.
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    Used-Bat-2095. 20 hr. ago Time to polish up your resume.

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