Ask HN: Would you mind being monitored at work?

Just look for another job, don't even waste a single second of your life considering that offer. I worked for a company that would allow us working from home some days a week, and we even had some remote colleagues. At some point, our manager made us install one of those applications, which denoted he didn't trust us anymore. The app worked exactly as you say, and it was frustrating and infuriating at the same time. It would "measure" your productivity based on the mouse and keyboard activity, giving ridiculous results like a 20% or 30% of effective time worked. Surely a monkey banging on the keyboard would have a much better score, but that's not what developers get paid for. Not only so, but I had the perception that the app had a special preference for taking screenshots when I was on Slack or writing an email, which feels like an utter violation of privacy. Obviously, most of us either left the company or refused to use the tracking software. Be conscious of the value you can provide and look for someone that judges your work by your output, not by the number of keystrokes you do a day.

Is this what you buffoons in the tech sector put up with? Are you really going to install this spyware on your own machine, as you said you were doing this remote? Absolutely hilarious.

Grow some balls. Do you really want some overseas dothead to PWN your machine?