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.
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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.