What Does This Mean?
[ SLANG ][ WORKPLACE SURVEILLANCE ][ MACHINE CULTURE ]
The portion of a workday during which employee-monitoring software detects mouse or keyboard activity and counts it as measurable work.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"My active time looked terrible today even though I spent most of it on a phone call for work."
LORE & ORIGIN
Standard employee-monitoring software term for activity-detected work time, core vocabulary in workplace productivity-tracking tools.
FIRST SEEN
2019
PEAK ERA (EDITORIAL)
Not established
CURRENT STATUS
Mainstream Gen Alpha Slang
Related To:Idle TimeProductivity Score
AURA IMPACT ⓘ
+1 AURA
TREND STATUS
↑ RISING
EDITORIAL ESTIMATE
CULTURE CATEGORY
[ SLANG ][ WORKPLACE SURVEILLANCE ][ MACHINE CULTURE ]
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DOCUMENTED SINCE
2019
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