There is an app that continously monitors all the other apps that I'm using, but it only registers me to be "working" if my mouse/keyboard is moving. So is there any way to get my mouse to move or my keyboardto press some key so that it detects me as "working" ?
That said, keep in mind that the best way to know if someone is working, is to just check what work they completed. A boss is more likely to question your productivity by how much work you get done, than if you move your mouse or not.
Not admitting I have done this before (LOL). 1) Open Notepad 2) Get a piece of paper and fold a small piece of it about 3-4 times. Stick between spacebar and the gap (frame) in front. You should see the cursor move forward like you are holding down the spacebar. Then you should be able to open other apps (like Teams) and it will show you are "available" !! This works until you remove the paper jam from keyboard, at the end of your shift.
I am demoing a piece of software and want to build a mouse 'mover' function so that I can basically automate the process. I want to create realistic mouse movements but am having a bit of a mental block in the thought process. I can move a mouse around easily with c# but want it to be a bit more realistic than just the cursor appearing at a certain x, y, coordinates and then pressing a button.
I get the current position of the mouse and then get the end point. Calculate an arc between the two points, but then I need to calculate points along that arc so that I can add a timer event into that so that I can move from one point to the next, and then repeat this till I get to the target...
This is a function I wrote to calculate a linear mouse movement. Should be pretty self-explanatory. GetCursorPosition() and SetCursorPosition(Point) are wrappers around the win32 functions GetCursorPos and SetCursorPos.
I converted the WindMouse function mentioned earlier into C# and it is actually pretty realistic. Note that this is just a rough sample and does not use wrappers for GetCursorPos and SetCursorPos. I will be using the Windows Input Simulator wrappers.
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You can easily prevent computer going into hibernate mode and Keep Windows Computer Awake temporarily (for the duration the Auto Mouse Mover is working) without modifying your control panel settings using Auto Mouse Mover Utility. For the duration the utility is running, it can be configured to keep the mouse cursor moving automatically. Just configure the utility and place your mouse cursor at a suitable place on your computer monitor and let mouse cursor move automatically.
Yes this. Also, I know many of my co-workers will block time in their planners for certain tasks so no meetings get scheduled over that time. Teams will show them as in a meeting, when in fact they are just working behind their laptop alone. So I will message or call them if I need them, and if they are busy they will ignore me. They know I will only do that if I have a good reason and I have no problem with being ignored.
You need to open your eyes if you think everyone is the office is actually productive all day. I have worked with some people who excelled at looking busy while accomplishing nothing for hours each day.
You can adjust the pop-up notifications. Unless your company has disabled user-access to all settings, you should be able to turn off the pop-ups and just leave the red button with a number in it notification.
I worked at a company and I thought they were turning on my camera remotely, so I disabled, if it suddenly became enabled I knew they were watching me in my own home, they never but it was an external camera, so I would have definitely pulled the plug on it
I often work on things that are 90% paper/book and 10% screen. It drives me bonkers when I have to go through alllll the logins every time I need to jump to the screen parts. I just want to have my computer ready and waiting for me!!
She may have gotten it just because she did not want the screen to fall asleep if she was doing something else for a little too long. Our password requirements at my agency have led to us having really long passwords with numbers, letters, special characters, etc., and we have to change them every 90 days. It is a pain to type it in more often than necessary! That is reason enough!
My current job is really insane with making us change passwords every 45 days. My screen goes to sleep after 10 minutes of inactivity, which if I had it set to lock on inactivity would inspire me to get a mouse jiggler.
Still, if I need to go to the bathroom it can take 15 minutes if I have an IBS moment. I would be furious if someone was nitpicking my computer use all day. I know that in my job there is often hours of skull time before I even open an editor to make a new script or document. I do some of my best thinking in the bathroom, FFS. If I was judged on keystrokes or mouse movement or some idiot piece of software deciding whether I was online or not I would rapidly be looking elsewhere.
Quite frankly, I think this company and manager has shown the OP exactly what they think of them and what they consider a true measure of work. The OP needs to find a new company where people are respected and judged on their actual output, not how long they stare at a screen.
Yeah, I am an attorney, and if I have a big hearing coming up, I rehearse opening statements or closing arguments, anticipated legal arguments, etc., away from my computer. I mean, in reality, you have to be able to think on your feet, but it helps to be prepared, to think through your talking points. I get up and away from my computer to do this, but it is still work. And I also have IBS, so I totally feel you there!
Calling it wage theft is especially ridiculous if she is exempt (which I assume she is). Just like they do not have to pay overtime if she works longer hours, she still gets paid the same if she has less than 40 hours of work to do in that week. She gets paid to perform her job duties, not by the hour, so it cannot be wage theft unless she is salaried and non-exempt, and it does not sound like that is the case.
Ah, I just never click. Moving the mouse every so often when reading/staring at something, via touchpad, is pretty much a reflex now. (And tap-clicking on a computer is evil to me so all tapping/gestures are disabled on my laptop touchpads.)
And really, unless you need to be in a specific place at a specific time or available very specific hours, employers should be focused on output and not on time. You figure out if your teleworker is doing their job or not by monitoring whether their work is getting done, not their active screen time. So anyone thinking this is a sign that remote employees are taking naps and watching tv should not be saying that it is a sign remote work is a problem, but that it is a sign that the managers of said company do not know how to do their jobs.
yes and no. If the lockscreen is set really short and you have to sometimes read physical documents and then occasionally take a note on screen, it can be really annoying to have to do the whole unlock rigamarole every ten minutes (and loose the thought you wanted to take a note of) while sitting right in front of the screen the whole time. The (obviously permissible) alternate solution is just randomly jiggling the mouse yourself every so often.
Honestly, I had never heard of one before today and I would have no reason to tell my boss because I am exempt, I do some work not on the computer, and I have no reason to assume my boss is tracking it. And if I cannot install something, the IT people will have it blocked. I would certainly not be getting one on the belief that they were going to be monitoring it to see if I am on the computer or what my active screen time is. The idea that they would do that is bizarre to me.
If I am sitting there reading a large paper file right by my computer, there is no risk to the computer or its content. I just do not want it to fall asleep while I am working on reading the case because I will want to look up and check the email if it pings. It is no greater security issue than if I were working on the computer in that case.
They can be measured the same way, but that likely means the job will be considered non-exempt, so salaried, but with requirements to pay overtime. It is a thing. My agency had a huge mess to deal with a few years back when they realized they had misclassified a large group of employees who were and are salaried as exempt! It was a crazy time.
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