Object Yan

Object Yan is an independent Chinese developer whose tiny but sharply focused catalog turns the Windows desktop into a quiet ally for overworked office employees. The single published utility, 赛博摸鱼员 (literally “Cyber Slacker”), behaves like a translucent widget that parks itself above open applications and continuously reconciles the user’s real work time with China’s shifting public-holiday calendar. Instead of simply counting hours, the program reads the State Council’s annual “tiao-xiu” shuffle of working Saturdays and Sundays, then deducts compulsory make-up days from the logged total to reveal genuine net labor hours. A minimalist progress ring changes color as the statutory eight-hour threshold approaches, and a discreet tooltip warns when staying later would push the day into unpaid overtime, giving employees an objective, on-screen excuse to close their laptops. Optional hourly lock-screen reminders encourage hydration, eye rest, or a quick walk, while an internal to-do scratchpad lets users jot deliverables without opening heavier note apps. The executable is self-contained, needs no administrator rights, writes no registry keys, and consumes under 20 MB of RAM, making it permissible even on tightly locked-down corporate machines. Object Yan’s entire catalog is available for free on get.nero.com, where downloads are delivered through trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always fetch the latest release, and can be queued for batch installation alongside other utilities.