Ford just rolled out mandatory badge swipe tracking to enforce the 3-day in-office rule. This isn’t about productivity, it’s about trimming the fat.
Word is, this data will be used to identify and target remote holdouts in the next round of layoffs. If you haven’t been showing up, you’re basically painting a bullseye on your back.
Round 2 is coming. Another way they’re deciding who goes.
If you’re not in the building, you’re out of the building.
Is this for percepta as well?
Fun fact with the badge readers on campus -
If you wrap your badge in tin foil (only 1 or 2 layers), it will unlock the door but not allow the badge ID to be read, The readers work on various frequencies and the tin foil restricts the band where the badge ID is taken from.
You're exactly what's wrong with FoMoCo.
I would expect that type of behavior from the low life knuckle draggers at the assembly plants. But not from a college educated corporate man.
Bill Ford committed to having 5,000 W2 employees ay the train station to get millions from taxpayers to pay for the renovation and there’s nowhere near that many there. If there ever are that many, good luck finding a place to park.
It's true. Thats why me and the boys have a badge swipe scam that we do.
One guy takes the other 4 badges and swipes everyone in on the days that he's in the office. And we take turns like that.
It's really easy.
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Classic. Like Ford in 2025. From “AI generated / non-Ford employees” to “frustrated and good for nothing” employees, self-preservation of company image at all costs has stayed at the forefront of the hypocrisy.
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Your venture would fail, like Ford Next. Following up on the last comment, imagine if they wanted to silence someone or get one to sign one of those NDAs… time to start thinking what lines they might cross to influence public perception.
Only frustrated and good for nothing employees post this much negativity. You as..ho
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Ford aggressively enforces NDAs and monitors dissent, explicitly stating, “I acknowledge that the business reputation of the Company is a valuable asset. Unless otherwise prohibited by law, I agree that I shall take no action following the execution of this Agreement that can reasonably be deemed to be inimical to the best interests of the Company…including ‘liking’ a social media post critical of the Company”. This makes the claim “In real life outside of this form most are supportive and fully behind leadership” vacuous. Which real life are we talking about? Real Life™ or real life? Corporate (dis)illusion like Figma suddenly planting a flag on the phrase dev mode through trademarking and subsequently sending cease-and-desists to the little guys who have used it in their software many years prior to when it was ever on Figma’s radar. Real life is a stage, there is the front of the stage and then there is the back. You think you’re still on the front stage because you’re afraid of what others will think of you in reality. What is your motive? Do you want us to accept corporate reality (Real Life™)?
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I would venture to say that many posts in this forum, if not most of them, are AI generated and/or non-Ford employees. It is not possible that such a high percentage of participants in this form have so much negativity to Ford, Ford leadership, and specific organizations within Ford. Just not possible. In real life outside of this forum most are supportive and fully behind Ford leadership.
@ep+1jvhjqnh2 making sh-t up like calling thread AI is great because we can really tell it hits a nerve. It basically tells us to dig deeper, right here. Thanks Unc!
I work from home programming AI bots to fill in comments on this site. No need to be in an office 3 days a week.
@OP+1jvhjqnh2 What do you mean “just started”? They have been tracking since March 2024. Where have you been? And just so you understand, it is next to impossible for your manager to meet the criteria. If a person travels to a supplier on one of the in-office days, that doesn’t count towards the 3 days. If a person is on vacation, out sick or otherwise not in the office, the 3 days isn’t met. If T/W/Th are the in-office days, and you go in Monday instead of Tuesday, the criteria isn’t met.
Managers are getting graded (as input into their PR) on if their groups are meeting the criteria or not. If people are in the office all 3 mandatory days, they meet the criteria; if not , they get a NO/ZERO for that week for that person (not a percentage of the days people were actually in the office). It is nearly impossible for the managers to meet the criteria for their groups. Yet this is what is being measured because someone thinks it is important. You’d think the powers that be would put that effort into something that mattered like..quality and warranty, maybe?
mandatory badge swipe is fine. However, way faulty. Look how many people are in the corporate directory reporting to the wrong managers. Just how are you going to pull reports that funnel to the LL4/5/6 with badge swipe data when half your team is reporting to someone else in CDS? No worries... they always find the worker bee to handle the work of the slacker anyways.
Folks are hiding at home doing nothing.
Management is going through the ranks firing them as they find them. Many more to come.
Good times are over.
Many people have taken second jobs since they work from home.
Great opportunity to make extra money.
Have your phone with you and you are good.
We recently had the windshield of our Bronco replaced. The technician came to our home and did the job.
Amazing. He worked remotely. He did the job efficiently and professionally without being in an office.
I work from home and I will continue to do so. So let's see who the fu-k is showing me
the door. I will come here in a year to comment again that I am still working.
@ab+1jvhjqnh2 please speak for yourself, not everyone is a slave who needs to get directions from his master every minute to do their job and get constant validation.
Some of us are able to work independently and are skilled enough that we can figure out how to fix issues without dropping by half of the floor's cubes to ask for help. If you need to collaborate with others every hour of your day and call people into meetings for every single little problem then you probably need to go work at mcdonalds where you don't need to use your brain much.
I have colleagues that praise how efficient and focused and productive they are with --- living few minutes from office --- not able to immediately respond to your message, being late for meetings, hearing family members shouting on the background when in call, and their code submissions and reviews taking 2x the average time.
Wake up.
People snap, you form a team and take turns, one person can clock in everyone on the team….. badge doesn’t lie…. Ha.
This isn't true at all.
In Ottawa they don't have enough seats in the office for everyone.
The majority of employees in Canada work from home.
This rule has been here for a while. If there is a round 2 in June, it's already decided who will be gone. Card swipe from now won't change anything
RTO is being pushed to set an example for smaller companies and perpetuate the management fad.
Many people in management are psychopaths. They long to see the faces of people when they inflict pain and suffering. They are deprived of this joy when people work remotely.
Commercial real estate investors, landlords and especially bankers need their office buildings leased. They need that rent. Oil companies need people commuting. Cities want the taxes.
Financially, spending money on office buildings for information workers when that expense could be pushed off into the workers is foolish. But fads are often foolish.
If you don't want to come into the office to do your work, then you should find another job.
Those who have been working from home should get a pay cut.
Three days a week? That’s totally lame. It should be mandatory five days a week. Hopefully management will wake up soon and change it to five days per week.
Nothing new here. This didn't "just start". Having been in place for a while one should expect this would be used for dismissal grounds. Logical move I think everyone should expect.
Damn, the opps are beefing
I have a coworker that lives in another state as our office. Wonder how this will work for her. She relocated because of her significant other and our manager allowed this last month. Bet my LLX knew this was coming. They always had bad blood.