Hell in a handcart....

[happyhammerhead]

Do you all wank over Home and Away? Seems rather specific.

Never watched it so dunno if there's anyone cute in it.

[perrykneeham]

Had you already gone blind?

[mids]

Come on, we've all done it.

[voice]

Getting the work asked for done as expected should be the focus not ensuring your employees are seen to be busy all the time, I'm sure we've all slacked a bit when the work was done and I'm sure we've all had to do make work to look busy and know how sh*t that is.

[perrykneeham]

Haha. Of course, this would be the very HQ of the unfocused.

[Repat Van]

Jun 14, 2024 13:05:45 GMT perrykneeham said:

"US banking giant Wells Fargo has sacked a number of employees following claims that staff were faking keyboard activity to fool the company into thinking they were working when they were not.

It is not yet clear how the issue was discovered or whether it was specifically related to people working from home.

The US bank said staff had been fired or resigned "after review of allegations involving simulation of keyboard activity creating impression of active work".

New rules recently came into effect in the US which mean that brokers working from home must be inspected every three years.

A spokeswoman for the firm said: "Wells Fargo holds employees to the highest standards and does not tolerate unethical behaviour."

In 2022, Wells Fargo said it had adopted a hybrid flexible working model with staff permitted to work from home some of the time.

Some large companies have been using increasingly sophisticated tools to monitor employees since remote work expanded during the Covid pandemic.

Such services can track keystrokes and eye movements, take screenshots and log which websites are visited.

But technology has also evolved to evade the surveillance, including so-called "mouse jigglers" which are aimed at making computers appear to be in active use which are widely available.

According to Amazon, where they can be found for less than $10, thousands have been sold in the last month.

Bloomberg, which first reported the move based on a filing Wells Fargo made to the US Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, said that more than a dozen people had been affected.

The BBC has confirmed six instances in which staff had been discharged after review, and one case in which a person resigned voluntarily after being confronted with the claims.

Many of them had worked for Wells Fargo for less than five years.

Many firms, especially in the financial industry, are pushing staff to return to the office.

Remote work has remained popular since the pandemic but numbers have been drifting lower.

In the US, just under 27% of paid days last month were work-from-home days, compared with more than 60% at the height of the pandemic in 2020, according to research by professors at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) Business School, Stanford and University of Chicago.

As of this spring, about 13% of full-time employees in the US were fully remote, and another 26% enjoyed a hybrid arrangement, according to the researchers."

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjll01220yeo

Dunno. To my mind, they're ducking the only metric that really matters: productivity.

How pathetic. If they get their work done that should be all that matters.

Companies like this are obsessive over employees devoting their working hours to them but all of a sudden seem not to care when employees devote their non-working hours to them…

[marechal]

Wells Fargo, that paragon of honesty.

www.nerdwallet.com/article/banking/well-fargo-fines#:~:text=Updated%20Dec.,vehicles%2C%20federal%20regulators%20have%20announced.

That story reminded me of this:
youtu.be/Aitb49wmIHk?si=UQCVTRYXhCiqWvmU&t=55

[perrykneeham]

Jun 14, 2024 16:07:00 GMT Repat Van said:

Jun 14, 2024 13:05:45 GMT perrykneeham said:

"US banking giant Wells Fargo has sacked a number of employees following claims that staff were faking keyboard activity to fool the company into thinking they were working when they were not.

It is not yet clear how the issue was discovered or whether it was specifically related to people working from home.

The US bank said staff had been fired or resigned "after review of allegations involving simulation of keyboard activity creating impression of active work".

New rules recently came into effect in the US which mean that brokers working from home must be inspected every three years.

A spokeswoman for the firm said: "Wells Fargo holds employees to the highest standards and does not tolerate unethical behaviour."

In 2022, Wells Fargo said it had adopted a hybrid flexible working model with staff permitted to work from home some of the time.

Some large companies have been using increasingly sophisticated tools to monitor employees since remote work expanded during the Covid pandemic.

Such services can track keystrokes and eye movements, take screenshots and log which websites are visited.

But technology has also evolved to evade the surveillance, including so-called "mouse jigglers" which are aimed at making computers appear to be in active use which are widely available.

According to Amazon, where they can be found for less than $10, thousands have been sold in the last month.

Bloomberg, which first reported the move based on a filing Wells Fargo made to the US Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, said that more than a dozen people had been affected.

The BBC has confirmed six instances in which staff had been discharged after review, and one case in which a person resigned voluntarily after being confronted with the claims.

Many of them had worked for Wells Fargo for less than five years.

Many firms, especially in the financial industry, are pushing staff to return to the office.

Remote work has remained popular since the pandemic but numbers have been drifting lower.

In the US, just under 27% of paid days last month were work-from-home days, compared with more than 60% at the height of the pandemic in 2020, according to research by professors at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) Business School, Stanford and University of Chicago.

As of this spring, about 13% of full-time employees in the US were fully remote, and another 26% enjoyed a hybrid arrangement, according to the researchers."

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjll01220yeo

Dunno. To my mind, they're ducking the only metric that really matters: productivity.

How pathetic. If they get their work done that should be all that matters.

Companies like this are obsessive over employees devoting their working hours to them but all of a sudden seem not to care when employees devote their non-working hours to them…

Yeah, it smacks of lazy spastics who're actually only interested in preserving the status ante rather than dealing with the status quo. Do these gimps not know where they're at or what their people are doing?

[mids]

I thought Wells Fargo ran stage coaches.

[marechal]

If only.

[perrykneeham]

In this day and age ....

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp6643jd8nwo

It makes you wonder if the concept of "the bad old days" is a mirage, and that every generation has its rotten apples. Worse still, are we the rotten apples who just don't care enough to stamp this sort of awfulness out, once and for all?

[moggyonspeed]

Private schools - consistently a higher standard of abuse.

[perrykneeham]

Actually, it looks more like a sub-contactor school. Also, regularly inspected and approved by Ofsted.

Also, what's shocking is that there must have been sufficient rumours about the place to send in an undercover team. It's hard to imagine that those rumours hadn't reached the ears of others and indeed parents. Why did nobody act?

Also, look at the staff. Bloody hell. They might as well be wearing signs saying "1970s PE 'Teacher'".

There's an interesting thing about the way we train teachers these days: the qualifications are theoretically standardised, but it is quite possible to find training providers who are happy to wave anyone through.

[mids]

School seems a different place to when I went there. I blame immigration, rap and the left.

www.theguardian.com/education/article/2024/jun/18/sexual-harassment-still-rife-in-uk-schools-poll-of-female-staff-finds?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

[moggyonspeed]

Jun 18, 2024 8:04:00 GMT mids said:

School seems a different place to when I went there. I blame immigration, rap and the left.

www.theguardian.com/education/article/2024/jun/18/sexual-harassment-still-rife-in-uk-schools-poll-of-female-staff-finds?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

No, don't tell me ... "St. Bastard's never did me any harm!"

[mids]

It wasn't perfect but I don't remember year 5 pupils asking female teachers about anal sex or if they liked "cum".

[perrykneeham]

Just the male ones?

[moggyonspeed]

B*st*rd! I've just spat a mouthful of coffee all over my office!

[flatandy]

“Year 5”? When you were at school. Surely it was fifth form and fifth year or class five. “Year 5” is some borrowed Americanism that means nothing to an old fart without kids like I am.

[mids]

I was translating for the English audience. The equivalent would have been primary 5 in Scotland back in the late 90s when I was at primary school. Now, in England it starts at year 1 and goes up to year 12 or whatever. Or it might not start at year 1.