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Marc Clifton

So the parent corporate company is requiring us to install this stuff. From their website:

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Device Idle Time -Checks the device for any mouse or keyboard activity, and the idle time is reported on Device Overview.

:mad: I'm installing it on the actual laptop owned by the company, which I hardly ever use, as I have a much more powerful laptop. :laugh:

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Craig Robbins

If they have a keystroke monitor you could employ your cat (or borrow OG's cat) to mess with their statistics even more :)

FreedMalloc

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Mike Hankey

Since you're not using their laptop to monitor your idle time will they require you to wear a water cooler proximity sensor?

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Marc Clifton

Already ordered - but the one with the on/off button.

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Marc Clifton

Craig Robbins wrote:

you could employ your cat (or borrow OG's cat)

I have a cat, and he's a good typist. For a cat! :laugh:

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Lost User

True story: Back when I wrote vessel navigation software we had a request to detect when the captain/pilots left the chair. A few months after we implemented it we heard that most of the ships had oscillating fans on the bridge. :laugh:

raddevus

Honestly think about the fact that they need to know you are "moving your mouse & typing". It absolutely means that they have no idea what you actually produce. It means that they only want to prove that you are sitting at your desk, not producing quality work. However, the most important thing it proves is : How terrible their project planning, understanding of resource usage & what it actually takes to do any real work is. The fact that they want this software is actually proof that Upper Management through middle management (who plan & provide work) actually have no idea if you are : 1) lazy, doing nothing 2) getting results This would never work in my company, because our managers are so daft that I send them a project plan, requirements analysis & show them how we can build the actual product... ...and then I wait weeks or months before they ever answer. What would I be typing in the mean time? For fox sake!!! 🦊

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Marc Clifton wrote:

parent corporate company

So this is a one shoe fits all effort, you will now be assessed on the same standards as the office drone! Just ignore it, if they ever query you on it point to your output and the endorsement of your immediate manager (and your salary package).

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Nelek

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: and :doh: :doh: :doh: :doh: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: at the same time

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GuyThiebaut

A cheap watch with a second hand on which to sit the mouse, should keep get some movement every minute or so.

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GuyThiebaut

The connection between an oscillating fan and someone seated or leaving a seat is lost on me :)

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Lost User

We were detecting motion, after a length of time without motion an alarm would sound.

GuyThiebaut

Thanks, so the fan would rustle papers and trigger motion or rather the fan being in frame and moving would trigger motion detection? :laugh:

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Lost User

GuyThiebaut wrote:

fan being in frame and moving would trigger motion

This. There was an idea put forward to detect heat but we figured they would find a way to get around that so never bothered. This was decades ago, I'm sure the young engineers today are using something more modern.

DerekT P

Just tell 'em you use speech-to-text.

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GuyThiebaut

I have written some motion detection software that works with webcams that I wrote around 14 years ago. I think modern cpu power has made detecting people, over other moving objects, much easier and more reliable.

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