A FEW YEARS AGO, Carol Kraemer, a longtime finance executive, took a new job. Her title, senior vice president, was impressive. The compensation was excellent: $200 an hour.

Working one job is difficult enough but taking on two at once is a mighty task that moonlighting employees understand best. Lately, conversations around employees moonlighting at work have gained traction as the workforce moved online and many found time on their hands instead of sufficient living wages. If you’re wondering “What is employee moonlighting?” then the term moonlighting refers to an employee with multiple jobs. Most of us with full-time time jobs might log out of work and go back home to take a breather. Those with a moonlighting career log of one full-time position to start working on their side jobs.

​During the darkest hours of the pandemic, when knowledge workers were forced to work from home and managers were wondering how to use technology to raise employee engagement and performance in a virtual work environment, Kelly Beckner, vice president of human resources at MBO Partners, fleetingly thought about employee monitoring tools.

A US banking giant fired more than a dozen employees for “simulating keyboard activity”, highlighting a battle within productivity-obsessed corporate America to tame a culture of faking work with gizmos such as mouse jigglers.

A US banking giant fired more than a dozen employees for “simulating keyboard activity,” highlighting a battle within productivity-obsessed corporate America to tame a culture of faking work with gizmos such as mouse jigglers.

A recent report from Global Affairs Canada (GAC) revealed disciplinary actions against nearly 100 employees for various breaches, including serious criminal acts.

US banking giant, Wells Fargo, recently fired more than a dozen employees from the health and management unit after finding that they were involved in the “simulating keyboard activity”, an action that corporate America is currently battling.

Ever since the proliferation of remote work, there’s been a growing demand for ways for employees to appear productive to their managers when away from their computers.

NEW YORK - The pandemic may have released us from the tyranny of the five-day-a-week office schedule. But the grip of America’s busy-work culture is proving harder to shake.

Over a dozen employees of Wells Fargo were found to be using devices or tools to make it appear that they were working while they were actually away from their desks. These remote workers, who were members of Wells Fargo’s wealth and investment management team, were simulating keyboard activity so that it appeared that they were at their computers. The fact that these employees were found and terminated came to light when the financial institution filed a report with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) in June.