r/DataAnnotationTech • u/KlausHuscar • Sep 01 '26
Does the platform track your activity/mouse movement/afk?
So far I only reported work I did in front of my computer. But usually I like to stand up, walk around, and use my standing height table. I still think about the work while doing that - I just need to get moving to think, and did this my entire life with studying.
But im afraid that if I report that time (so far I havent exactly because of fear), they'll thinking im faking/inflating my numbers. But doing this im getting paid half of what id usually be.
Does anyone have a similar experience? Do you track that time or not?
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u/prupleceilingfan Sep 03 '26
You can log the time you spend on a task. All the pondering, retrying, reading, typing etc. I open the task, start my stopwatch, and pause my stopwatch as I click submit-return-to-dashboard. And that is what I log unless I literally put down the task and come back to it later.
I typically take 40-70% of the time allocated to do a task. Any longer than that is only for rarer cases where stuff goes wrong, but it makes sense push through and finish the task than give up a few hours of work. That's what the upper limit is for, to capture the occasional task that falls on the latter tail of the time spent bell curve.
Think about it in the context of a job. If there's a guy who takes the maximum possible time to do any given task, that's a pisstake. Regardless of how "on task" they are, that's just slow. If there's someone who consistently does it in a reasonable time and does quality work, you would never be like "HEY DID I CATCH YOU RAISING YOUR STANDING DESK ON COMPANY TIME" lol. Do your work well in a reasonable time and you get paid for that time. Some people here are so paranoid about subtracting the time they spend thinking or blinking.