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Re:Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022 by samwestdev on Friday January 06, 2023 @05:34AM (#34273139)
Same except I used to avoid my employer detecting me going AFK
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Re:Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022 by jannw on Friday January 06, 2023 @05:38AM (#34273184)
cough! - well, yes, that too - cough!
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Re:Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022 by pigtailgirl on Friday January 06, 2023 @05:47AM (#34273254)
-- your employer can know this? - why they want to - you are paid by the minute? - never heard of a company monitoring this --
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Re:Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022 by JakobH on Friday January 06, 2023 @05:50AM (#34273272)
Many employer do it over the teams activity status.
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Re:Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022 by andrewinardeer on Friday January 06, 2023 @06:01AM (#34273362)
Open new email, a weight on the space bar.
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Re:Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022 by lucb1e on Friday January 06, 2023 @10:32AM (#34275771)
Pretty sure that isn't legal in most countries where HN'ers work from

Which is not to say that it is not done, but personally I have enough options that I would like to see them try to fire me over something like that. If I'm staring off into the distance to think about something or reading source code without pgdn'ing for five minutes, yes it's not uncommon that my screen turns off while reading something (until I get around to setting the timeout higher at least) but that doesn't mean I'm not working.

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Re:Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022 by theshrike79 on Friday January 06, 2023 @05:43PM (#34282382)
It's 100% a US only thing.

It was almost a meme on TikTok during the pandemic, (American) people figured out the weirdest ways to keep their Teams bubble green.

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