Desk workers of Lemmy, what are your tips for appearing busy in the office even when you might not be?

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Microsoft Viva Insights will really fuck you on this plan. There’s just no escaping it anymore.

what does viva insights do exactly?

It’s a workplace monitoring tool dressed up as a workplace wellness tool.

You know that table that shows the risk of employees who might burn out, given their meeting frequency, teams interactions, email rate, work hours etc.? If you flip the sorting order, you can measure who isn’t doing enough (by whatever metrics the employer decides).

I Remote Desktop from my personal computer into my work computer. All personal stuff happens on the personal computer, the work computer is work stuff only. There is no way for my work to know I am “goofing off” while working.

There is. Viva insights doesn’t even track keyboard and mouse activity as far as I know. It’s about teams usage, meetings, calls, chats, etc.

Oh I definitely still do plenty of that, I’m doing my job after all.