What is Mouse Jiggling That Costed Employees Their Jobs?

We are not done with the layoffs trend. At regular intervals, we are seeing the companies going for layoffs. However, the reasons are different in the trend. Companies sometimes are forced to lay off employees due to financial situations. In other cases, the wrongdoings of employees are the reasons.

We have seen what happened with the Moonlighting trend creating shackles in the IT industry. A few giants scaled employees for holding two jobs. Now another trend is getting attention as a big bank removed employees for faking work. This came as a big shock.

A big bank named Wells Fargo had found that employees were faking their work by simulating keyboards. With this, it sacked over a dozen employees. The bank found that the employees are using Mouse Jiggling for this.

Those who use systems or laptops know that continuous activity is required or else the devices go into sleep mode. Systems going into sleep mode is an indication that people in front of them are not working.

In order to see that the authorities won't know this the employees used mousing Jiggling. The bank got to know about the wrong practices of the employees and sacked them. People are saying that this will serve as a big warning to such employees.

Mouse jigglers are used to stop the devices from going into sleep mode. With this, the employers feel that the employees are working. If they have any work then they would do the work. The bank said that such behavior is not accepted and they sacked the remote employees.