Cognizant Technology Solutions is reportedly rolling out new monitoring technologies to detect employee activities on company-issued laptops and PCs. According to reports in Mint and other publications, the company has begun training select executives on how to use workforce-tracking solutions like ProHance to monitor staff laptop activity and application usage on specific client projects.

The workforce management tool analyses mouse and keyboard activity to determine employee engagement levels. An employee can be flagged as ‘idle’ if there is no activity for more than 300 seconds (5 minutes). Meanwhile, if a laptop remains inactive for 15 minutes, the employee may be marked as ‘away from the system’.

Cognizant noted that the data was designed to help better understand the client's proc

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