My company installed Teramind on our laptops last quarter and I would like to formally complain about being unable to think.
It captures screenshots every three minutes. I know this because I watched my screen at 3:00:00 and again at 3:03:00 and saw the cursor flicker the same way both times. I have been counting since. I am writing a complex spec for our Q3 roadmap. The kind of writing that requires me to stop and stare at the wall for two minutes, then come back, write three sentences, and stop again. I have written specs like this for nine years. They are the single most valuable thing I produce. Yesterday I stopped to think and noticed the cursor flicker and could not stop noticing. Every three minutes. Click. The screen is saved. The screen of me staring at the wall is being saved. I cannot write the spec when I know it is being captured. I cannot stare at the wall when I know the wall is in the screenshot. I have written 600 words of the spec in three weeks. I used to write 1500 in a week. The system that was installed to measure my productivity has destroyed my productivity. The system cannot tell. The dashboard will report that I am writing less. In two months a manager I have never met will pull up a chart and conclude something abotu me from it. I am looking for a new job.