anyone with insider info know how the badges get tracked?
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So Frank us paid all this $$$$$ to monitor badge swipes? 🤔
The data is also being used to justify terminations. If you are notified by HR to return, you have about a week to be in the office before talk of your termination will occur.
Frank reviews the reports. If you are not coming in 3 days a week, leadership will pull you in and remind you to be in office 3 days a week. Yes they are watching. It does work to swipe on weekends, they aren't paying attn to dates just overall days. Ridiculous...
A lot of the employee surveillance data is analyzed in a platform called Gotham by Palantir. Google it for more info. Badge-in/out, location tracking, PC idle, keystroke activity, etc. Useful reports for profiling employees who can be out-processed without the need for severance.
Latest I have heard is that if you are in a role that is expected to be in the office daily, you will show up on a report if you have five or more missed swipes over the course of a calendar month.
One of my buddies swipes my badge for me so I can WFH a ton. My manager is at a different location and couldn't care less.
No one knows the formula they use to determine on site percentages. Security looks at swipes as "badge opportunities". I know their numbers are incorrect. Perhaps their including weekends or holidays. My guess is they don't compensate for your scheduled time off. If you're worries about it keep a log and tell them to disprove it.
The badge monitoring software was troublesome to use, and generally a pain. Of course times in are tracked. In Alpharetta, times out were not but that was some time ago before the Visigoth invasion. Yes it could disable a card and it had to scanned again by security to re-activate. Contractors had a big problem with this one. But in a blinding display of being smart, my then 4 year old grand-daughter, visiting me, gathered up the visitor badges and took them to security as they must be returned. Charming - she knew more about badge security than half the Fiserv employees did.
If I'm close to the office on the weekend or holiday I go badge in just to see if the notice on the bade swipe monitoring software. If I'm not in the office e on a weekday I swing by and badge in. On the three daysba week I have to go to the office I badge in. It's just a numbers game. Now if they could not run the air-conditioning all the time it would be great. We have people wearing sweaters and coats in the spring amd summer in the offi e because it's so cold inside.
Some locations require a swipe to badge out. So they can track in and out times.
Daily or weekly reports are forwarded of all employees who swipe their badge. Big brother IS watching.
I found an RFID reader inside the toilet paper spooler.
Guess I yanked too hard.
Everything is tracked.
Pretty sure Sapience Buddy is tracking how many times you wipe your ar-e - Uncle Frank needs to know these things
Its not rocket science, every time you swipe your badge it is centrally recorded. Security can pull a report of every badge swipe, entry point (reader), time stamp etc. What they can't see is when you leave, because we don't have card readers on the exits.
I don't know how the badge swipes are tracked but if you're out of the office 10 days in a row or more your badge is disabled.