Define: "E-presenteeism" in Business
Minimal fiscal damage
"Use a physical mouse jiggler. Software jigglers can be detected by IT, but hardware jigglers keep your dot green without triggering the bosswareBosswareDraconian corporate spyware installed to ensure you are wiggling your mouse frequently enough while deep in thought staring at a packet capture. alarms."
The pressure remote employees feel to constantly appear online and immediately responsive to digital communications.
What does "E-presenteeism" actually mean?
"Keeping your Teams status dot manually set to 'Available' at 10:00 PM so the C-SuiteThe C-SuiteThe people who approve a $5M cloud migration but deny your request for a $50 keyboard. thinks you are grinding, when you are actually designing a house in The Sims."
"We encourage employees to log off after hours to combat e-presenteeism and burnout."
"The culture of e-presenteeism is so bad here that people are bringing their laptops to the bathroom just so their Slack status doesn't go yellow."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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