It's the end of WFH Hybrid for certain industries.
Many (most?) London based roles are hybrid now , train occupancy seems back to pre-covid levels
Amazon tracks and targets US staff over 3 days in office rule
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Re: Amazon tracks and targets US staff over 3 days in office rule
#22I 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.
Did they get the email?
Re: Amazon tracks and targets US staff over 3 days in office rule
#23At 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.
A lot of places have badge in and out readers nowadays. Bolted in during pandemic to "help make sure we don't have too many people in the office for safety." Kept because of course it was kept.
Re: Amazon tracks and targets US staff over 3 days in office rule
#24They could have just made the article focus on how the big corps are trying to anger staff enough to quit on their own so they don’t have to pay severance. These companies are playing with fire. It turns out you do need some staff to finish projects and the more chaos you cause, the less will get done with existing staff.
Re: Amazon tracks and targets US staff over 3 days in office rule
#25I 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.
Did they get the email?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ they’ve been getting prompt emails generally I don’t know about this one. Their manager is trying to get the various enforcement machinery worked out but not much luck stopping the emails.
Re: Amazon tracks and targets US staff over 3 days in office rule
#26At 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.
A lot of places have badge in and out readers nowadays. Bolted in during pandemic to "help make sure we don't have too many people in the office for safety." Kept because of course it was kept.
> A lot of places have badge in and out readers nowadays. Bolted in during pandemic to "help make sure we don't have too many people in the office for safety." Kept because of course it was kept.
I've been joking with my coworkers that we should pool our badges, and just rotate one person who goes in and swipes everyone's badges in, works a day, then swipes them out.
Re: Amazon tracks and targets US staff over 3 days in office rule
#27I'm a huge WFH fan, but I don't see the problem of a company demanding 3+ or even daily attendance. It's a bad business decision IMHO, but it's simply that: a business decision. And they have the right to know if you are complying with that job requirement, it's not too different from requiring warehouse workers to lift boxes.
Re: Amazon tracks and targets US staff over 3 days in office rule
#28Just 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…
Wow, that's inconvenient. Seems like a courthouse/prison
Re: Amazon tracks and targets US staff over 3 days in office rule
#29Just 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…
> 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.
Could you swing a backpack through to fool the sensor? But it's sounding like fooling it would be way to attention-grabbing to work.
Re: Amazon tracks and targets US staff over 3 days in office rule
#30I think employees should also have a law in their favor stating that once they badge out of office at 5 pm, their laptop is locked completely.
This will make all attendance reasonable.