Boss Has Absurd Productivity Meter, So Employee Maliciously Complies

The abrupt closure of many offices and workplaces during the peak of the pandemic ushered in a new era of remote work for millions of employed people around the world. The Pew Research data shows that today, more American workers say they are working from home by choice rather than necessity. Among those who have a workplace outside of their home, 61% now say they are choosing not to go into their workplace. With companies shifting to either hybrid or fully WFH models, the option is becoming somewhat of a no-brainer.

Or that’s what one Redditor and an employee at an unnamed company thought. In a post on the Malicious Compliance subreddit, they said they really wanted to work from home full-time and “hated the office with burning passion.” But contrary to their expectations, the Redditor got assigned as in office full-time. “It made no sense to me,” they wrote.

Turns out their company implemented a pretty unusual productive measurement to determine who is allowed to WFH and who isn’t. “Basically we have a company-wide IM system that shows you as available, idle, or in a meeting. If you don’t touch your keyboard for 5 minutes, you show as idle,” they said. The author was told they were simply shown as idle too often to be allowed to switch to remote work.

But the Redditor didn’t give up and came up with a savage plan to maliciously comply with their management. Read on to see what they did below and share your thoughts about the whole situation!

This employee has recently shared how they were not allowed to work from home because they were shown idle on work chat too often

Image credits: Elina (not that actual photo)

But the author didn’t give up and came up with a savage way to outsmart the controlling management

And this is what people had to comment about this whole situation

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