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Cell Phone Accelerometer System Alerts the Boss to Your Laziness

by Caleb Johnson on March 9, 2010 at 04:05 PM


Once a bastion of laziness, the office cubicle may no longer be safe from workers' oldest enemy: work. According to Asiajin, a team of researchers from KDDI Corporation, one of Japan's largest cell phone companies, recently developed a technology that would let your boss remotely monitor your every move.

The cornerstone of the monitoring system is deceptively simple: a cell phone equipped with an accelerometer. If your workplace decides to implement the device, one would input actions into the phone as you're doing them. That way, the device could accurately determine whether or not a movement corresponds to a purported action. For example, if your job is mopping the bathroom floor, but the accelerometer isn't detecting any movement (because you're taking a nap in the storage closet), your boss would know. As time goes on, and as you enter more actions, the system becomes more accurate. Therefore, after a few weeks, the office should run like a well-oiled machine.

As experienced office grunts, we're not too thrilled about this. After all, being lazy while making money is the American dream. [From: Asiajin, via: Fast Company]

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