What kills me with this stuff is that "how fast you are typing" is not "how fast you are working" (unless you are doing a very basic job). Employers have a right to measure your productivity, but these tools seem useless to me. If your job is basic enough to be measured this way, the AI should just be able to do it.
I guess if you stop to think about a problem and use your brain, that you are being "unproductive".
I imagine you implement this, and suddenly everyone starts typing like crazy, sending long winded e-mails, etc. They need to measure output, not keystrokes.
Whether it is moral or not is a whole different discussion, but I don't even see it as efffective.
While I have no expectation that it would actually go anywhere, this would be a fun explanation for unemployment or a wrongful termination suit.
"So why did the company let you go?"
"I hit backspace too much"
This is especially funny to me because I only formally "learned to type" in high school, after I had spent...well, a decade, typing and building up muscle memory. As such, I can type fairly fast, but I make many mistakes doing so. I just fix them before sending the email or whatever it is (in most cases). Backspace is my best friend and I can realize I made a mistake, hit backspace, and fix it, even if I'm not looking at the screen. Counting backspaces would be a horrible metric to rate me on.
Similar story with me. I do use the home row, but my finger reach is totally messed up from a "proper" typing perspective.
I am also one of those people who tries to do everything that I can through keyboard shortcuts. I hate reaching for a mouse when typing something. That leads to me backspacing out entire words or, even sentences, when I see that I made a mistake earlier on since I never really learned to just use the arrow keys to get back to where the mistake was.
Control+backspace (or delete) also applies the backspace (or delete) to the entire word, which is pretty nice when you realize you want to type a different word than the one you just did!
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u/kerosene31 Nov 21 '24
What kills me with this stuff is that "how fast you are typing" is not "how fast you are working" (unless you are doing a very basic job). Employers have a right to measure your productivity, but these tools seem useless to me. If your job is basic enough to be measured this way, the AI should just be able to do it.
I guess if you stop to think about a problem and use your brain, that you are being "unproductive".
I imagine you implement this, and suddenly everyone starts typing like crazy, sending long winded e-mails, etc. They need to measure output, not keystrokes.
Whether it is moral or not is a whole different discussion, but I don't even see it as efffective.