Wells Fargo has fired a bunch of employees after finding out they were pretending to work with "simulation of keyboard activity"

That might have been how they found out. "Cody's been active for 48 hours straight and hasn't accomplished a single thing."

If you let your workers take breaks, check their email, chat to loved ones and peek at social media, their productivity goes way up.

Similarly, if you micromanage your staff, their productivity plummets.

If capitalism worked, and companies were driven towards actually maximizing dividends, companies would actively invest in the infrastructure to keep employees happy and in working form. But instead, companies consistently splurge on letting upper management behave like children, including hiring a staff of handlers to keep the binky in their mouths. And that includes letting them bully the staff.

Some day, we dream, the ownership class will tremble before revolution of the proletariat, and maybe well take some steps towards a public-serving economy.

But not today.

If they paid based on results, you'd be in sales. Everywhere else, you're a wage slave. On the hourly side, they try to wring every second of work they can out of you, and anything else is a 'loss'. It's the same for salaried employees, the measurement is just different. Instead of work efficiency, it's work hours. The rest is just politics.

Well, they are entitled to it. Didn't you know that?

Lots of brib- I mean meeting clients on business trips. Yeah, doing business. And golf. For business. Shut up.

If you're using a work computer, I strongly advise not putting that on there, especially if it requires installation. At my work, we regularly scan for apps like these, as well as the physical jigglers that connect via USB. We do this for security reasons primarily. There are several built-in ways in Windows to simulate activity, I really don't see the point in downloading random apps from potentially sketchy sources.

One example off the top of my head: If you have multiple monitors, go into presentation mode with PowerPoint on one of them. This way, you can still have one monitor available to see your email and whatever chat app your org uses. If you have just one monitor, pretty sure you can still push it to the back or minimize it and it'll still work. Also, watching videos within SharePoint is another way of preventing Windows from detecting inactivity. If you use Teams, you can start a meeting with yourself (though, some orgs monitor activity on Teams, so use this at your own risk). If PowerShell isn't disabled, there's also options there.