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The ‘Mouse Shuffle,’ A 2024 Workplace Trend, Has Employers Scratching Their Heads
Forbes ^ | 07/03/2024 | Bryan Robinson, Ph.D.

Posted on 07/04/2024 9:06:31 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Since the pandemic, employers have been engaging in certain types of quiet maneuvering like “quiet cutting” and employee surveillance to assuage the needs of business and stabilize their workforce. A recent study reveals that 79% of employees say they’re under pressure to perform to “show” they’re working. Many workers are retaliating with quiet workaround tactics of their own such as “quiet quitting,” “coffee badging,” “quiet vacationing” and “shadow policies.”

First, It Was Productivity Theater As the quiet tug-of-war continues, so does the suspicion and mistrust on both sides. Poor workplace culture also has given rise to resenteeism—a trend similar to “quiet quitting”—when resentful employees get the bare minimum done due to burnout and feeling they're underappreciated. They realize they have to stay at their current job because of financial obligations and responsibilities, but they're not ready to leave the position for one reason or another. This unproductive mentality, dubbed the ultimate productivity killer, is affecting small businesses and large companies nationwide.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Reference; Society
KEYWORDS: 2024; mouse; shuffle; workplace
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I believe they have programs that makes it look as if you're working but you're not even there.
1 posted on 07/04/2024 9:06:31 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I am aware of software program, where it clicks your mouse randomly like a real person would.

This shouldn’t be too hard. Employers should measure outcomes and leave the employees figure out how to ensure acceptable outcomes on their own time. If I am prepared to work once a week for 36 hours straight, that’s how I choose to organize my time.


2 posted on 07/04/2024 9:10:57 AM PDT by Jonty30 (He hunted a mammoth for me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The current Federal Government has these “workers” in spades- and they are needing to be ordered back into an office where they can be physically seen to be working— not artificially intelligence confirmed but ACTUAL intelligence confirmed.

Under the coming house cleaning- they will be removed on the basis of this “fake work”.... to our ever thankful populace paying billions for compu-crapola as policy. Devoid of humanity and reason.


3 posted on 07/04/2024 9:11:27 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
certain types of quiet maneuvering like “quiet cutting”

What the heck is "quiet cutting"?? Is that like sneaking out a silent fart in your workspace?

4 posted on 07/04/2024 9:13:45 AM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I am very thankful that I started working for myself at 26 and never looked back. My wife had some decent bosses and some bad ones. I let her retire at 53, she had put up with enough.


5 posted on 07/04/2024 9:14:46 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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To: John S Mosby

Boy is that the truth.

I’ll say though, it don’t matter if they are at work under observation or not. And I think it is worse now than it has ever been. It’s always been a joke, and true to a degree. Now the degree is absurd.

Not sure there will be a house-cleaning though.

I am convinced this is entirely by design.


6 posted on 07/04/2024 9:21:21 AM PDT by Sarcazmo (I live by the Golden Rule. As applied by others; I'm not selfish.)
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To: LittleBillyInfidel

Huh. Move that guy’s office away from the AC intake.


7 posted on 07/04/2024 9:23:27 AM PDT by Sarcazmo (I live by the Golden Rule. As applied by others; I'm not selfish.)
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To: SaxxonWoods

I became self employed doing books for small businesses 44 years ago.

I cannot imagine faking any of that.


8 posted on 07/04/2024 9:25:39 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Poor workplace culture

It's not the work or the hours.

I don't think I could ever go back in an office. What with woke assholes everywhere,
celebrating perversion, using pronouns, etc.

I work remote, thank God!

9 posted on 07/04/2024 9:27:11 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts (,,)
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To: LittleBillyInfidel

The practice of “quiet cutting” is an old practice with a new name. It involves employers reassigning workers to new roles in hopes they will eventually quit so the company saves the cost of severance.


10 posted on 07/04/2024 9:28:22 AM PDT by null and void (The last war America actually won was WWII, because the CIA wasn't organized until after that war!)
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To: Jonty30

You are right. Some people can get 40 hours done in 30. And others take 50 to do the same thing. If you want to get ahead you know everything about a subject before anyone else. And you become important to someone. Doing a good job, means you will be let go as soon as the job is not needed anymore.


11 posted on 07/04/2024 9:28:25 AM PDT by poinq (thics and customs and did not take an oath to the country. And did not follow the country's traditio)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Lives of quiet desperation, then retirement, a secure, safe retirement of people who lived safe, secure lives, they serve an important part of life and of a people’s survival but it doesn’t suit us all.


12 posted on 07/04/2024 9:29:05 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Ninety percent of those slackers are democrats (especially if they are government employees). They are the worst of the worst.


13 posted on 07/04/2024 9:31:51 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: Sarcazmo
when resentful employees get the bare minimum done due to burnout and feeling they're underappreciated.

Boy is that the truth.

We called them drones when I was a supervisor.

14 posted on 07/04/2024 9:32:39 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: Sarcazmo

The “can’t be fired” aspect of the old Civil Service carryover policies-— are no more. This is the same way in private corporations when profitability is threatened (in this case taxes are not enough to fund government, ever expanding by political fiat)- the first thing to improve the bottom line is removal of labor costs. Human resources/personnel are always under the direction of corporate finance.

So, removal/elimination of 100s of thousands of 100k a year fedgov employees would reset the trillions in unfunded liablities immediately. They would have to find other work- which their current work was hampering private sector in the first place. This is something a political leader is incapable of doing vs. doling out .... gibs me dats and jobs to distribute the “dats”. So bottom line managers will have to do the job— hopefully with pleasure.


15 posted on 07/04/2024 9:34:41 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: poinq

What I discovered as a manager was that if the company mandated overtime, the same amount of work got done but cost the amount of the overtime. Knowing they’re going to be there the workers just slowed down. There is no gain from working overtime.

Also, when I discovered workers spending absurd hours I’d investigate and, in every case I can remember, the worker had a problem at home. I told them, I don’t want you here after 40 hours. If there’s really that much work, then it’s my job to increase the staff.


16 posted on 07/04/2024 9:36:02 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Change to “piece work” style payments.

I have made a business off lazy employees. What it shows is that 75% or more employees are liabilities and completely useless to companies.


17 posted on 07/04/2024 9:38:38 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Has anyone ever tried Quiet Quitting on a production line?

I believe industrial management calls that Immediate Termination.

How can anyone Quiet Quit unless their job has no quantifiable production goals?


18 posted on 07/04/2024 9:40:19 AM PDT by zeestephen (Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
About 55 years ago, it was known as "dogging the job": I worked a swing shift at Lockheed in Burbank and the shift was mainly populated by minorities and they happily taught me the basics of pretending to make parts, to carry a job order around to make supervisors believe I was actually doing something, and to drag out a work order so we could get overtime hours. They also gave me training in stealing tools, and making "G-Job" (Government Job) parts on the machines for our own use -valve covers for our engines and I even saw one guy machining Thompson Submachinegun receivers!

My own sense of integrity kept me from doing any of that stuff (I was a Marine, recently returned from Vietnam) and I was grateful for my $17/hour job, but it went on and on around me. Needless to say, we were all union members (closed shop) but the management never caught on and the union didn't care a whit. Our L-1011 airliners were more expensive than the DC-10.

Now Lockheed-Martin doesn't make airliners anymore. No suprises.

19 posted on 07/04/2024 9:44:20 AM PDT by Chainmail (You can vote your way into Socialism - but you will have to shoot your way out.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I only know one way to work. I rock out non-stop, maximum effort.
Building to building, office to office, meeting room to lab, lab to lab, shop to shop, pick up a wrench, test tube, cable motor controller, PLC, machine tools, bag of blood, centrifuge it, sample it, fix a machine, develop a new one.
End of the day, I cannot remember what I did. I could only do that effectively for about 6 hours per day. Plus an hour+ of commuting.
Mid 50’s I am out..


20 posted on 07/04/2024 9:45:45 AM PDT by sonova (No money? You're free to go.)
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