It seems a lot of people are pretending to do more work than they actually do.
While performance art at work comes in many different forms and happens for different reasons, one generation is actually outperforming the others in its efforts to not work: Gen Z.
'The average worker fakes about five hours per week.'
Con jobIn a survey of full-time American professionals, employees have found remarkable ways to fake productivity.
Shockingly, 66% of employees admitted to faking productivity at work, and 73% of managers said they do it as well.
Gen Z has a particular affinity for it, however, outperforming older generations by 12 points when it comes to slacking off. A whopping 80% of them said they are faking productivity, while Millennials came in at 68% and Gen X at 58%.
The study from Software Finder also revealed some wild tactics employees are taking to make it seem as though they are actually working when they are not.
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Cat and mouseThe top two methods employees are using to fake work are "moving the mouse periodically" and "keeping a doc or browser tab open"; 56% of respondents said they use those tactics.
Another method used by 43% of full-time workers was purposely responding to non-urgent messages at a slower rate, or "slow-responding."
More than a third of employees said they would log in to a tool they aren't using, while about a quarter of respondents said they would send a strategic message on work apps like Slack or Teams to make it seem as if they were working.
Another 22% said they scheduled emails for later in the day.
All this fake work adds up to a massive amount of time burned over the course of the year. Specifically, the survey stated that the average worker fakes about five hours per week making it seem as though they are working. Multiplied over a year, that's 260 hours, and when divided by an eight-hour work day, that's more than 32 full days of work lost.
However, it may not be the employees' fault.
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More than half of respondents said they finished their work at least an hour before the day actually ends, so the rest is lip service.
Who are they faking it for? More than a third said their direct manager, while another 31% said "no one in particular."
The latter is indicative of a trend of not working for the sake of it, as 27% of workers said they were faking productivity because of "general workplace culture."
The next leading reason was due to their managers, who "measure presence over output."
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Two of the internet's most notorious manosphere influencers got arrested again this weekend.
On Saturday, U.S. Marshals cuffed Andrew and Tristan Tate in Miami, reportedly en route to a bare-knuckle boxing event. Footage of the handcuffing went viral almost instantly, with the internet immediately fixating on the brothers' rumpled outfits — particularly Andrew's choice of a tight and revealing purple blouse.
Their lawyer, Joseph McBride, called the extradition attempt a 'political kidnapping.'
By Monday, the fashion critique gave way to a Miami courtroom, tan jail uniforms, and total silence while their lawyer vowed to fight the latest extradition attempt to the United Kingdom.
Between the two brothers, this round alone adds up to 38 new charges — rape, sexual assault, trafficking for sexual exploitation, and, for Andrew, 19 counts tied to indecent images of a child and extreme pornography, plus an alleged pattern of choking victims, sometimes to unconsciousness, before assaulting them.
These charges add to the 21 original charges by the Crown Prosecution Service from May 2025 — bringing the total to 59 charges, all of a similar nature.
A separate, ongoing Romanian case accuses them of running a coercion scheme — faking relationships with women to trap them into producing pornography that authorities say generated over $2.8 million and nearly $1 million in crypto tokens.
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Their lawyer, Joseph McBride, called the extradition attempt a "political kidnapping." He's dangled the idea that Trump might personally intervene to block it — McBride has said the president hates "political persecution and communism," referring to actions by the U.K. government.
The Justice Department has pushed back on the political persecution framing, directly confirming to the Associated Press that leadership of its Criminal Division approved the arrests — contradicting McBride's earlier claim that it was greenlit by a "low-level functionary" without leadership's knowledge.
Because the Tate brothers are dual United States-British citizens, the final call on whether they get shipped overseas ultimately falls to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who has the discretion to approve, block, or sit on the extradition order regardless of what the court decides.
McBride's case that the arrests are a political witch hunt leans hard on the brothers' Capitol Hill victory lap the week before the arrest. A photo circulated online appeared to show Andrew and Tristan posing with a member of Congress, part of a swing through D.C. that also included a stop at the Ned, an exclusive private club near the White House.
Three days after that trip, they were in handcuffs — a coincidence McBride has seemingly leveraged to argue that the case is politically motivated. He has maintained that the brothers are innocent.
A Miami judge ordered both brothers to be held in federal custody until the next hearing on Monday, and McBride estimates a final decision is around 60 days out.
Blaze News reached out to the White House for comment but did not immediately receive a response.
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Iranian Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni made a trip to Pakistan on Tuesday with a “high-level delegation” to meet with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his defense chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir.
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