Why busywork is fooling leaders

Employees are finding increasingly creative ways to appear productive. That may say less about workers than it does about the metrics companies use to measure performance.

In 2025, Cambridge Dictionary added over 6,000 new words. One of them was “mouse jiggler”—a device or piece of software used to make it seem as though a computer mouse is moving so that it seems as though you are working when you are not.