It's not a short story, but maybe you're remembering a bit from "Snow Crash"?
> Y.T's mom pulls up the new memo, checks the time, and starts reading it. The estimated reading time is 15.62 minutes... Y.T.'s mom decides to spend between fourteen and fifteen minutes reading the memo. It's better for younger workers to spend too long, to show they're careful, not cocky. It's better for older workers to go a little fast, to show good management potential. She's pushing forty. She scans through the memo, hitting the Page Down button at reasonably regular intervals, occasionally paging back up to pretend to reread some earlier section. The computer is going to notice all this. It approves of rereading. It's a small thing, but over a decade or so this stuff really shows up on your work-habits summary.
Yes, that's exactly what I was thinking of. I didn't know it was part of a book, I think I originally read this paragraph on someone's blog. Thanks for sharing the original source!
Re:The high price of mistrust
by cutemonster on Monday January 25, 2021 @08:29PM
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It'll get harder when the computers add eye tracking and one has to fake looking at the text too :)
Re:The high price of mistrust
by twoquestions on Monday January 25, 2021 @01:11PM
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You may also be thinking of Snow Crash. Creepy stuff!
Re:The high price of mistrust
by logreybaby on Monday January 25, 2021 @01:01PM
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1984?
Reminds me of a short story I read, which I can't find now. The gist of it was about this person reading a memo or something at work on their computer, and the person wasn't actually reading it, they were just scrolling down the page and occasionally scrolling back up to pretend to re-read paragraphs because they knew the monitoring software flags such behavior as a positive indicator that the reader has increased comprehension of the memo.