Good employers have to trust their staff.

Read below how one Redditor challenges their time-tracking system with malicious compliance.

You have to think they learned their lesson.

The details are below!

Time tracking salaried workers is ridiculous…

Sorry for any formatting issues. I’m writing this on my phone.

My company decided to install time-tracking software on everything a few years ago, but didn’t make a big deal out of it.

When asked, management said to not worry about it and keep doing your normal workday.

So maybe the software is just used as an innocent metrics system for something else.

Recently, time worked has become a bigger issue. HR is coming down hard on everyone I know.

According to them, we are only working 50% or less of our required hours.

This didn’t make any sense, because the work is still getting done, and everyone is still online all day.

That doesn’t make sense. What should everyone do?

Because of time being a bigger issue, I started tracking my time very carefully.

I was logging over 9.5 hours of work a day, but only getting credit for maybe half that. Cue malicious compliance.

I tested a bunch of different scenarios and learned what is tracked and what isn’t.

Scheduled meetings are always tracked. So now, I am in a meeting every minute of my normal workday.

And once I hit the eight-hour mark, no matter what I am doing, I drop it, and quit for the day.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is called self-care!

This has started to affect how much is being done in total on a weekly basis. But I am finished with working for free.

I have also been 100% remote for the majority of my employment. Over 10 years.

For this to be an issue, now, is definitely sending big red flags and killing any support I had for my company.

That’s too bad; it seems like this is someone at the top trying to prove their value.

I also fall under the exemption for labor laws that don’t permit unpaid overtime for salaried workers.

White collar and make “too much” money.

Micromanaging is never a good look.

What does Reddit think of this malicious compliance?

One Redditor mentioned how much time meetings amount to.

Another user called out the micromanaging that makes people want to leave on the spot.

Another commenter spoke of their job highly — but they’re not time-tracked.

And another Redditor wanted the name of the app so everyone could be in the know.

Ultimately, there are consequences to micromanaging your employees.

It might just be more trouble than it’s worth.

Thought that was satisfying? Check out what this employee did when their manager refused to pay for their time while they were traveling for business.