- cross-posted to:
- antiwork@lemmy.ca
- cross-posted to:
- antiwork@lemmy.ca
The real takeaway here is that Wells Fargo pays for work that isn’t quantifiable via review of the work product. What are these people doing that produces nothing that can be reviewed to quantify their performance to such a degree that simple mouse movement is the only metric they can be judged by? If I were stupid enough to be invested in that criminal enterprise I’d be pissed.
The article doesn’t say the fired employees were doing this all the time. They could have used them for an hour here and there while they were out running an errand. Very difficult to spot that on any work review.
If they had measurable productivity that was acceptable then who cares if they needed to step away for a while? Wells Fargo is sending a message that they care more about warm seats than actual results.
Last month, Wells Fargo reportedly fired over a dozen employees for using tools that fake productivity at work.
Wells Fargo has approximately 194K employees as of May 2024
So 0.006% of their employees?
And probably a lot was invested in catching these scallywags. Just imagine having to setup this kind of monitoring. Or did the employees have mouse mover.exe on their pc.
Probably they recorded the screen and used that as monitoring.
That would be Straight illegal. Even Monitoring mouse movement is illegal afaik