Company installs tracking software that checks employees' mouse movements to determine productivity, until one employee proves the system is faulty: ‘He told me to wiggle my mouse’

How many times have you wiggled your mouse in the last hour?

As time goes by, it seems like companies find more and more ways to track employees in an attempt to ensure that each worker is using their entire 8-hour workday doing nothing but work. We constantly hear of new ways employers track their employees' "productivity", while making sure no one is wasting precious company time for their own benefits.

When this employee shared their story on Reddit's r/antiwork Subreddit, they wanted to vent about this exact phenomenon, while also proving just how faulty these new, high-tech systems truly are, and how useless they can become.

The newest craze in these tracking systems is, of course, the mouse tracking. Since many employees these days have at least one day a week where they get to work from home, bosses can no longer rely on the good ol' method of looking over their employees' shoulders to ensure everyone is doing their job. Now that some employees do their jobs remotely, a new tracking system is needed. All to make sure everyone is doing their due diligence.

In comes the "mouse tracking" system, which tracks workers' mouse movements on their computers to ensure that everyone is working all the time. This system was introduced to the employee below as well, who was told that anyone who does not move their mouse every 4 minutes will be written up for "idle time".

This system, however, neglects to take into account anyone whose job requires more than a few mouse jiggles every 4 minutes, which includes the employee who shared the story. So when they were called to their boss's office to explain why their "idle time" is so high, they came prepared to prove that the tracking system is missing some vital information about the job. Would that be enough to fight against these silly new protocols? You'll have to read below to find out…

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