America’s largest financial company Wells Fargo has fired its staff working from home. The company has cited the reason behind this as their use of “Mouse Jigglers”. After this incident came out, many companies have been forced to consider the work from home option. Many companies started the work from home culture during the lockdown. Where their employees do office work sitting at home. Due to this, no one keeps an eye on those employees, whether they are working or not.
Companies are calling back employees from work from home
According to the BBC report, the employees found guilty have either been fired or have resigned on their own. According to the company, employees working remotely are inspected every three years. Due to work from home, many companies are using many tools to keep an eye on their employees. Which also records eye movements, mouse movements, screenshots and the website being used.
According to the report, the US Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has said that more than a dozen people have been affected by using this software. You will be surprised to know that some of the people who have been fired by the company were working for Wells Fargo for 5 years. After this incident, the company is considering ending work from home.
What is “Mouse Jiggler”
Mouse Jiggler is a software that prevents your computer from going into sleep mode. Apart from this, this software maintains activity on the screen. Let us tell you that Mouse Jiggler is a fake keyboard activity software. Due to which the tool that is monitoring your activity thinks that people are sitting in front of the system and working, but this is not the case.
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