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Not all work is done on a computer even when you're an IC. Time tracking programs like this misrepresent the actual time spent in favor of the employer. It is w
by hparadiz 4y ago
Not all work is done on a computer even when you're an IC. Time tracking programs like this misrepresent the actual time spent in favor of the employer. It is wage theft.
- kelnos 4y agoI mean, a) she admitted she lied, b) the software tracked printed documents, and the (relatively small) amount she printed could not have accounted for the extra time. In this particular line of work, pretty much all billable hours should have been on the computer, or should have been accounted for in printed documents. I am right with you on the general theme of employer abuses and wage theft, but it doesn't seem like this was one of those cases. I'm more concerned about the normalization of electronic surveillance.
- olliej 4y agoIt can be, except here she literally admitted she was lying. It's also important to realize the monitoring software was installed after she was already underperforming for an extended period. It was also not the sole evidence. If you actually read the case: * She admitted to falsifying her time sheet * She was already on some kind of PIP * The monitoring software recorded that she was not doing work on her machine, but also recorded whether she printed out documents, as she claimed, but she had not. * The file access logs also showed she was not opening them. * And again: she admitted she falsified her reporting Finally: The company did not sue her for this time. After she was fired for the above she sued them claiming they weren't justified in firing her after she falsified her time sheets and demonstrably lied about the work she did. In response the court ordered her to pay back at least some costs.