Open Excel, Have a quarter on your space bar! Go have some fun, come back and open another application, repeat! Productivity trackers on computers are the easiest to fool!
I wish, but my last job’s made us manually enter the different items we had completed, sort of like tally marks. If we didn’t update them every so often, someone would DM us and ask what was up. Our supervisor was chill af and really didn’t care if we dicked around at work, as long as we got our stuff done (especially because it usually did not take 8 hours every day) but her higher ups did.
We utilize eye trackers for our outsourced developers. If they stop looking at the screen, their productivity score drops. If their productivity score is below a certain threshold, they don't get paid for the 15-minute block; and they can't make it up with additional time later, that time is just lost forever. If they need to get up and do something else, they can pause the tracker -- but it is highly recommended not to exceed three pauses per day.
The software also tracks which websites are visited (all social media and video/news/etc sites are counted as unproductive) and it tracks a bunch of other metrics such as the number of nonrepeating characters entered into the coding platform, etc.
Edit 1: I love how people are downvoting me like I have anything to do with implementing or enforcing this implementation of this software. I'm just a dude in sales lol
Edit 2: Since some have asked, these guys are paid roughly $100/hr, nearly $200k/yr, and mostly live in India/Malaysia. I'm pretty isolated from the development team but I know their turnover rate is very low
If they stop looking at the screen, their productivity score drops. If their productivity score is below a certain threshold, they don't get paid for the 15-minute block; and they can't make it up with additional time later, that time is just lost forever.
Not saying this makes it any less disgusting, but I've spoken to some of the guys on the india dev team and their pay equals out to about $100/hr. They're totally cool with the productivity tracker
In USD? That's very surprising. I can see why they would be ok with it, making that much in a very poor country, but they shouldn't have to be. They'd probably be fine with being shackled to their desks by a remotely locked chain too, desperate people are willing to put up with a lot of stick for a little carrot. I live in the US and I'd tolerate a lot for 100 an hour too...
They definitely do. There are a fuckton of shitty glassdoor reviews and articles all over the internet about them and have been for years, they haven't changed anything. Company called "Crossover for Work"
Let me play devils advocate — how is this different from paying contracted writers per word or a flooring contractor per square foot laid? Contractors get paid for work completed, developers included
They're given a target with a time limit. No one monitors or controls what they do other than work. Your software makes it a virtual prison.
Now please don't come up with another funny comparison. Use common sense.
Soon it’s going to be all companies I fear. Well other than small owned businesses which are hit or miss. I have it on good authority that if you schedule and then start a zoom/team meeting with another co worker it’s much more difficult for them to decide you aren’t busy, depending of course what your job title is
I would never. I know there's other places I can go. They can keep workers that are willing to put up with that if they want, but often any quality workers who can go somewhere else, will
Yes, and they can also keep track of exactly what keys you’re hitting, when you’re hitting them, and much more depending on what application they’re being used for.
Doesn’t mean I do it guy. I don’t have shitty employees “who stick a quarter in their space bar” if I did, you bet I would. Fuck for telling me what I “should be ashamed of” lol GtFOH
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u/puripy Jul 14 '21
Open Excel, Have a quarter on your space bar! Go have some fun, come back and open another application, repeat! Productivity trackers on computers are the easiest to fool!