looking for ideas or hacks on tricking my employers time tracking software. yes I know, I am a degenerate but that’s not importasnt right now!
Mouse jigglers/movers are either little physical gadgets you set your mouse on (like a tiny moving pad), or apps that automatically nudge the cursor around for you. They work like a charm, depending on which time tracking software your employer is using. Do you know the name of the tracker?
It works as advertised. Don’t worry about how I know that.
I actually used a jiggler in the past, not the one posted above but a similar one. They used to work perfectly, but like everything in life these tracking softwares have improved. They now monitor things like CPU usage and your process manager. So they can actually detect if you’re just using a jiggler.
Unfortunately, these time trackers have gotten very good. If I were you, I wouldn’t risk it unless you’re ok with getting caught and likely fired.
Good luck with this broham, these employee trackers are crazy complicated now. A mouse jiggler will do nothing. These tracking software companies look at everything now, they are very hard to beat. You can perhaps figure something out with AI, but I don’t know how effective it will be.
Go look at the trackers available and look at their features. These trackers are looking and analyzing things you’ve probably never even considered.
The days of mouse jigglers are long gone G.
lazywork.xyz is a great app and did good for me, used it for almost 3 years. but my company’s tracker didn’t take screen shots, not sure what can beat screen shot features. but short of that, lazywork is really good.
trying to game monitoring software usually backfires because a lot of these tools don’t just look at mouse movement. They can flag patterns like repetitive input, long idle stretches, or weirdly consistent activity. Even if it works short term, it can look worse later if someone audits it.
I’d be really careful with this because most modern time trackers and employee monitoring type tools are not just checking the mouse moved or a key was pressed. A lot of them build a full activity profile across multiple signals, and the obvious “keep the computer awake” tricks can stand out pretty quickly. This is the most low-hanging fruit and obvious targets when it comes to tricking these trackers. The people who build the trackers obviously know this. At this point, the “keep my mouse moving” thing is almost a honeypot for getting yourself busted.
For example, many systems can compare:
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Mouse movement patterns, including repetitive paths, identical timing, or movement without meaningful interaction
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Keyboard activity, especially if the input is unusually consistent or does not match actual work output
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App and window focus, including whether the person is active in approved work tools or just keeping the desktop alive
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Idle time versus productive time, especially when the screen appears active but there is no corresponding work activity
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Screenshots or screen recordings, depending on the software and company policy
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Browser and app usage patterns, including long stretches on unrelated sites or apps
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Login times, device activity, VPN sessions, and network behavior
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Task output, ticket updates, document edits, commits, messages, calls, or other actual work signals
The real issue here is that these tools do not need to “prove” someone used a mouse jiggler or script in a forensic wqay. They only need to flag behavior that looks inconsistent, robotic, or hard to explain. A pattern like eight hours of near-perfect activity with very little real work output can look worse than simply having normal idle time. They just have to alert your boss, an actual human, who can then look at the data and know pretty quickly what you’re up to.
Another risk is that some monitoring tools keep historical logs. Something that seems to work for a few days or weeks can still create a footprint that becomes a problem later if a manager, HR team, security team, or compliance department reviews it. In some workplaces, intentionally manipulating time records can be treated as falsifying hours, violating company policy, or misusing company systems.
It can be done and I know people who have been doing iit for years successfully, but if you value your job you gotta be really carful trying to pull this off. If you don’t really value the job, you can for sure yolo it until you get fired. You may be able to squeeze the employer for a free paycheck or 10 before they realize what you’re doing. But if you don’t have a technical background, you’re likely going to get busted trying to do this.
Whatever you do, randomness is the key. Like, true randomness. Think weather or lava lamp. You have to attach your mouse movements and typing to something that has no pattern. With AI, it can be done. Your mouse movements, your typing, it all has to be based on something that has no pattern. Actual random events.
They should rename this thing the job termination helper 
bestie this is wild what kind of job do you have lmaooo
Pinning this. Best post here in months.