There’s a new term for slacking in the workplace. It’s called “fauxductivity,” and it’s happening more and more as workers find ways around the constant electronic monitoring from their workplace overlords. Workers have caught onto the game, so they’ve devised ways of “filling their day with hundreds of meaningless surface-level tasks,” and bosses can’t tell the difference between them “looking busy” and “being busy” as they avoid their “actual job.” Workers guilty of “fauxductivity” defend the practice saying it would be helpful if helicopter bosses would focus on “results, rather than micromanaging.”
Source: The Guardian