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Wells Fargo fires more than a dozen employees for faking work using mouse jigglers and keyboard activity simulation (www.tomshardware.com)
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[โ€“] intensely_human@lemm.ee -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How much the mouse moved is explicitly, pointedly NOT the metric they were fired for.

The reason is in the headline.

[โ€“] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago

How much work they were getting done is explicitly, pointedly NOT the metric they were fired for.

Why would a mouse jiggler be effective for any reason unless it was a metric being measured?