What a bizarre article. How can an employer not be allowed to keep track of when you work?
indeed this is location tracking, not productivity monitoring.
Amazon tracks and targets US staff over 3 days in office rule
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#12What a bizarre article. How can an employer not be allowed to keep track of when you work?
Yeah, that was oddly non-specific. How can being at the company's office ever be "private"?
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#13Just let your coworker/friend swipe in for you. If they can't tell otherwise, does it really matter?
*Not financial advice
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#14I have a friend who’s required to do 3 days in the AWS office, buuuut… Amazon hasn’t re-opened the building he’s supposed to report to. Like he has a desk assigned in a closed building.
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#15> Amazon has tracked the attendance of US-based workers and targeted those who appeared to fail to comply with its hybrid working policy, sparking concerns about privacy. Concerns about privacy? Really? They expect that entering and leaving their employer's building should be something that they should be unaware of?
Sure. Most companies track entering/leaving but are not actively monitoring it, Employees become concerned when moving from tracking to actively monitoring.
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#16I'm very pro WFH but this is pretty benign and standard tbh. One of the reasons employers give you a badge in the first place is to track whose coming and going into the building.
Before the pandemic/WFH, another employee got let go at my company because they were trying to stealthily work remote. My understanding is that their badge-in/out data (or lack thereof) was used.
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#17>The email to a select number of employees prompted some to raise concerns about privacy...
This is a fascinating perspective for Amazon employees to take given the numerous privacy concerns many people have had about Amazon for a long time.
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#18Just let your coworker/friend swipe in for you. If they can't tell otherwise, does it really matter? *Not financial advice
Lol. Based on chats with a buddy that [still] work there, in [most] a lot of buildings they have a system sort of like the subway. Swipe, door open, you pass through, door close. There isba sensor that can tell if you went in. You also swipe in and out of the building. So not only they know you were there, they know for how long.
From a business security point of view this makes sense. You want to know who is in the building at all times.
Also, from conversation with same person: everyone got the email. Not a single soul they talked to met the "quota". Isn't it great? Now they're gonna move to the fire everyone stage?
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#19Just let your coworker/friend swipe in for you. If they can't tell otherwise, does it really matter? *Not financial advice
This might work at some companies only using badging, but remember Amazon owns Ring, facial recognition technologies, and probably has location tracking on company phone apps. Someone else badging you would probably create more problems for him and you.
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#20At a prior megacorp that I just quit from for their return to office strategy people would come into the office, swipe their badge at the entrance, log in to their machine, lock the screen, and go home to work.