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Woman fired after company uses keystroke tech to see how she's working from home

by neverminder on 8/10/23, 12:31 AM with 45 comments

• by pavel_lishin on 8/10/23, 1:50 AM

  Question 1: Why did her employer need a keystroke monitor to build a case to fire her, when she was clearly not meeting expectations?

  Question 2: why does this news story need to plaster her face all over the article multiple times?

• by qwertimus on 8/10/23, 1:09 AM

  It makes me so uncomfortable to see staff like this justify the use of these monitoring technologies. Employees are increasingly treating their staff like children, and with headlines like this, it seems increasingly appropriate.

• by kylecazar on 8/10/23, 1:00 AM

  Worth highlighting that the keylogger was imposed on the employee after they had missed deadlines and showed poor performance... Presumably as an incentive to actually work, which I guess wasn't effective.

• by gumballindie on 8/10/23, 10:30 AM

  > missed deadlines and meetings, been difficult to contact and had cost her employer a fine after failing to complete a task

  Nah, she wasn't fired due to keystroke "tech". She was fired due to performance issues that she attributes to mental health problems. Burnout is the first thing that comes to mind that might prevent people from performing as well as they should.

• by regpertom on 8/10/23, 3:58 AM

  Does anyone else get reminded of snow crash feds with stuff like this? I know when I’m sent a company document on company servers I behave like Yt’s mum.

  First except I found https://www.deaneckles.com/blog/700_docsend_in_snow_crash/

• by jkestner on 8/10/23, 2:46 AM

  Graphic designers, Mouse Odometer is coming (back) for you.

  https://www.macintoshrepository.org/33350-mouse-odometer

• by vlark on 8/10/23, 4:19 AM

  Ah, Unilad.com, one of the most trusted of news sites!

  When every single link on the page leads to another page on the same base domain, you know you are dealing with a site that pedals in nothing but clickbait.

  Move along, nothing to see here.

• by firesteelrain on 8/10/23, 2:24 AM

  We need more information as the article is made to sound like the employee was lazy. Maybe something else going on. We will never know

• by hsjqllzlfkf on 8/10/23, 7:18 AM

  > On average she was pressing her keyboard 54 times an hour during the periods in which she was being monitored.

• by toyg on 8/10/23, 10:53 AM

  She can't be very bright - says that nobody hires her because the fact she was fired went viral, complains of that to a newspaper.

  Keylogging on employee workstations is a Bad Thing, but some people really take the piss - and risk ruining it for the rest of us. Hopefully this sort of event continues to be the exception to the rule.

• by kirykl on 8/10/23, 12:48 PM

  Being in an office doesn’t mean she’d be sufficiently keystroking either

• by crawsome on 8/10/23, 12:31 PM

  Why is the clickbait Facebook company writing news articles