Anyone have any experience with this application and the use? Feels like a way to gather evidence for firing people under the muse of improving efficiency. I feel less and less invested in this company as I feel more and more like a useless, replaceable number to them.
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Does this cr-p run on Mac and Linux too?
It’s used as a micro management tool period. Maybe the bank could down size a few levels of management since this tool does half of their job. All the levels of people with nothing to do other then come up with crazy ideas that take employees away from production to complete task that no one cares about.
Yeah the BS about improving efficiency is getting tiring. Would be nice to see someone in management with the courage to say it for what it truly is ... micro-managing with the end goal to frustrate employees to leave on their own (no severance!).
This company Sapience was fined over a billion dollars in the EU for privacy violations. This program/Spyware got hundreds of people wrongfully fired at Fiserv. It's all over the Fiserv Layoff page.
The application does not log time properly and if someone away for mere seconds it starts counting as away time. If people didn't hit certain metrics they were fired at Fiserv. US bank has documented metrics for Sapience as well.
Lastly this is absolutely ridiculous because with the latest RTO initiative any in-person collaboration is quickly counted as unaccounted for on sapience. So are we supposed to collaborate in person or are we supposed to hit metrics on Sapience?
It hasn’t been brought up to anyone on my team to my knowledge. It was said the intention was to identify areas of inefficiency to help improve processes and identify areas where resources could be helped. Obviously just a bunch of lying bs that they think we’re stupid and can’t see that it’s being used to micromanage.
" feel more and more like a useless, replaceable number to them."
This is how it is for most , if not all companies. US Bank just does it in ways that protect those near the top, notice how the long term/Executive roles are not being cut, shocking ....
If you're not C-Suite/Executive/Can be of any actual use to them, US Bank does not care about you. They'll only care enough until their bottom line is reached, Lay you off, and hire someone at 60% your salary and repeat the cycle.
It is also being used to monitor IP access points. With RTO being a key focus this year, they are tracking the duration of your connection to VPN versus USB networks.
Yes, it was sold to us employees as a way on improving efficiency. its really only an activity timing tracker, counting minutes on an application. Feels like its really of no use but can be of use for firing.