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Taskmasking (n.) is performing busyness at work, with brisk walks, loud typing and fake calls, instead of doing the work.
Taskmasking (n.) is carrying a laptop briskly across the office, all day, to nowhere.
The careers platform career.io is credited with coining 'task masking' for workers who perform busyness rather than do the work.
Taskmasking (n.) is a spreadsheet left open like a lamp in an empty house.
In one UK survey, 38% of C-suite leaders admitted faking productivity, roughly the same share as ordinary workers.
One catalogued tactic is the 'West Wing walk-and-talk': striding through the office with papers, looking deep in thought.
Taskmasking (n.) is all of the busy, none of the work.
Taskmasking (n.) is the newspaper with eyeholes, updated for the open-plan office.
Taskmasking (n.) is driving an hour each way to type loudly near your manager.
Taskmasking (n.) is shaking the snow globe whenever the boss walks past.