Remote work dashboard flags any gap of 10 mins or more as 'slacking': 'A bathroom break counts, and so does reading a policy update'

What does it really mean to be supervised at work?

There are a lot of different ways to be an employee in this day and age. It can feel like we're at a turning point, where we're redefining what it means to work and what it means to have a job. We're thinking about how to approach the workplace in a modern era when how we define that is always changing. Forbes reports that "Nearly a fourth of workers in the United States currently work at home." This has obviously had a big impact on the way that we see the workplace in this modern era. When you're no longer showing up to a certain place every day, the expectations are probably going to change. There is a different system of accountability at play here, and each workplace defines that differently. The workplace in this story was overly strict about the way they logged their employees' time, and they were growing tired of that constant monitoring.