{
  "slug": "proof-of-work-not-surveillance",
  "title": "Mouse jigglers, dual employment, and the surveillance trap",
  "summary": "Activity monitoring measures presence at a device, not work, and a $20 gadget defeats it. The alternative is signing work events instead of watching hours.",
  "lede": "Activity monitoring measures presence at a device. It does not measure work, and a twenty dollar gadget defeats it completely. Both sides of this argument are currently losing, and the way out is not a better camera.",
  "date": "2026-09-12",
  "reading_time": "17 min read",
  "category": "Workforce",
  "tags": ["employee monitoring", "mouse jiggler", "overemployment", "remote work", "proof of human work", "workforce identity", "time theft"],
  "image": "https://cdn.twc.sh/images/igcache/Proof%20Of%20Work%20Not%20Surveillance/1200_630/blog.jpg",
  "url": "/blog/proof-of-work-not-surveillance.html",
  "wordcount": 4835,
  "related": ["identity-continuity-hire-to-offboard", "gig-account-renting", "identity-failure-map"],
  "schema": "Article"
}