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Ask HN: Employee monitoring using Microsoft Office

I recently heard that some senior management at my company monitor employee "work habit" using some Microsoft Office's feature for all their departmentThere is indeed a Microsoft Office feature called "Viva", but it supposed to be private to us.https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/viva/insights/personal/overview/privacy-guide-usersViva emails are grossly inaccurate for me. It recalls 80% focus time...

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Ask HN: Anyone else frustrated with the state of office apps (Chat/Email)

I have had it with unreliable productivity tools in my daily life!I get a Slack message from a coworker on the phone. I read half of it before clicking on the notification. (In retrospect, I should have read whole message before clicking). So I know the topic, just not the full message.. anticipation builds... while I wait for the POS electron based Slack client to connect back to Slack to...

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Re:Tech compensation in 2021 on Thursday October 14, 2021 @08:05PM (#28872022)
VCs and senior executives are largely hesitant to randomly go hire from any random country, eastern European or not. Unless there is an established city, like say, Bucharest. Most managers don't want to deal with 1 person in each random city. Having an official office in a big EU city is no brainer. It is being done as well.

Unrelated: A friend of mine had a well established Vodka factory in Crimea/Ukraine randomly taken over by some goons. Sometimes people worry, for good reason or not.

Re:Show HN: Symmetrical Drawing Tool for Doodling on Monday January 11, 2021 @11:44PM (#25742388)
Symmetry ads beauty to any crappy stroke :)