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Cognizant To Monitor Employee’s Keyboard & Mouse Activity? Netizens Share Hilariously Brilliant ‘Jugaad’ (And Memes)

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Cognizant To Monitor Employee’s Keyboard & Mouse Activity? Netizens Share Hilariously Brilliant ‘Jugaad’ (And Memes)



Reportedly Cognizant is testing tools like ProHance to monitor its employees and mark 300 seconds (5 minutes) of inactivity as idle. If the system remains idle for 15 minutes, the employee’s status will be allegedly marked as “activities away from the system.” Per reports, the tracking metrics for the employees include break times, productive and idle hours, time per task, etc. The company also uses the D+ Scorecard to assign performance scores to business unit heads.

While Cognizant claims that the tracking is for process insights and not performance, the internet is far from convinced. The company spokesperson clarified that the company occasionally uses “various productivity measurement tools, a common industry practice, in select business process management or intuitive operations and automation projects, at the request of customers.”

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Reactions poured in, with several dropping memes, a few sharing work-around hacks and others taking a jibe at companies that enforce such regulations, breaching employee privacy.

One user jibed,

“Corporates to turn into Bigg Boss houses.”

Another quipped,

“Bandhua majdoor. IT companies creating hostile environment so that employees are forced to resign.”

Another user shared a link to the news of Wells Fargo firing staff for faking keyboard activity. The report from July 2024 states that the American bank found several of its staff faking keyboard monitoring activity using ‘mouse jiggler’ software. The company either removed or resigned the staff following the probe.

Meanwhile, one user shared how keeping a live wristwatch under the mouse can trick the system, while another shared a picture of an object to keep the space bar on the keyboard occupied for ages.

Impressed with the ingenuity of the internet, one user remarked, “It’s India, bro; we have jugad for everything.”

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Disclaimer: Mashable India doesn’t endorse unethical employee activities or practices by employers that infringe on user privacy

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