US banking giant Wells Fargo has sacked a number of employees following claims that staff were faking keyboard activity to fool the company into thinking they were working when they were not.
It is not yet clear how the issue was discovered or whether it was specifically related to people working from home.
The US bank said staff had been fired or resigned “after review of allegations involving simulation of keyboard activity creating impression of active work”.
New rules recently came into effect in the US which mean that brokers working from home must be inspected every three years.
Was there a claim of lack of output that I didn’t see? I admittedly skimmed this.
I was under the impression that the only issue was that they weren’t in their seats when they were supposed to be, which is so fucking stupid I struggle to find words to describe it.
I am a manager, people report to me. I judge if they’re working effectively based on their output, and as long as the output is what the job requires I could not care less when they’re at their desks. They’re being paid to get work done, not sit in their seats.
Some jobs do require that you sit in your seat for x hours a day, but we shouldn’t pretend all jobs do.