Two all the way, a coffee milk, and a Del's: If they had competent middle managers they wouldn’t have to do this because the managers would know who wasn’t working because that’s what competent bosses are able to do. But they don’t. They have incompetents who suck up to *their* bosses enough.

if you have policies that incentivize employees in any way to use a mouse jiggler and you then run an audit that detects people using a mouse jiggler I think you kind of have to fire those people. you should really avoid the first two things though

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I'm don't have an MBA, but I can think of ways to figure out whether remote workers are doing their job that wouldn't be defeated by a mouse jiggler. It starts with, "Are they doing their job?"

It always comes back to incompetent middle management. Return to office, companies doing bullshit like this, etc. Because they employ useless, incompetent middle management and are too blind to see it.

If they had competent middle managers they wouldn’t have to do this because the managers would know who wasn’t working because that’s what competent bosses are able to do. But they don’t. They have incompetents who suck up to *their* bosses enough.

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