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If your firm is using Office 365 / Microsoft Azure products, your managers have similar capabilities available to them. This is one of the marketed uses of Offi

If your firm is using Office 365 / Microsoft Azure products, your managers have similar capabilities available to them. This is one of the marketed uses of Office 365 and other Microsoft products - monitoring "productivity" via metrics such as Teams posts and responses, Azure DevOps activity, etc. I mention this because it doesn't require bringing together disparate systems to monitor your employees. This includes monitoring what files you opened on OneDrive, when you opened them, etc. If you are using Office 365 at work, I highly recommend going to delve.office.com and taking a look. Edited to clarify Office 365 + Microsoft Azure products

PragmaticPulp 5y ago
Slack also has employee statistics tools that rank employees by number of messages sent. I worked at a company where the CEO once shared a slide with the top Slack users and praised them for being engaged. Suddenly, everyone started spamming Slack to get their Slack numbers up. My least favorite technique was the people who pressed enter every few words as an easy way to get more lines. After the CEO publicly praised the top Slack users, I started getting a lot of messages like this: > hey > you there > ?? > quick question > for you > I’ll keep it quick > :) I would some times leave for lunch and come back to over 100 Slack notifications that could have been replaced by a few e-mails, but that wouldn't have earned anyone Slack points. Slack basically became useless after that.
- throwaway14356 5y ago
  you are now a progamer
Tarsul 5y ago
this function must be weakened where I work. At delve.office.com I only see a couple dozen office documents and how often they were opened. I'm not surprised that I don't see it all (as I work in Germany) but I'm surprised that there's basically nothing (of value) there. Well, I should be happy about that.
- muttled 5y ago
  You have to enable the more intrusive metrics in the back-end.

PragmaticPulp 5y ago

Slack also has employee statistics tools that rank employees by number of messages sent. I worked at a company where the CEO once shared a slide with the top Slack users and praised them for being engaged. Suddenly, everyone started spamming Slack to get their Slack numbers up. My least favorite technique was the people who pressed enter every few words as an easy way to get more lines. After the CEO publicly praised the top Slack users, I started getting a lot of messages like this: > hey > you there > ?? > quick question > for you > I’ll keep it quick > :) I would some times leave for lunch and come back to over 100 Slack notifications that could have been replaced by a few e-mails, but that wouldn't have earned anyone Slack points. Slack basically became useless after that.

throwaway14356 5y ago
you are now a progamer

Tarsul 5y ago

this function must be weakened where I work. At delve.office.com I only see a couple dozen office documents and how often they were opened. I'm not surprised that I don't see it all (as I work in Germany) but I'm surprised that there's basically nothing (of value) there. Well, I should be happy about that.

muttled 5y ago
You have to enable the more intrusive metrics in the back-end.