Are they using it to track us?
Anyone knows more about this, please share it to help us non-tech folks.
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It’s 1984 in 2025
I hate to tell you, but there's about a half dozen different ways you are tracked as an employee. From vehicle telematics, to COU devices, BLE, presence indicators, IoT devices, LAN reports, card presence reports, and the list goes on. Be where you are supposed to be, doing what you are supposed to do and it's a non-issue. If you don't like it, quit. It's 2025.
Be where you are supposed to be, when you are supposed to be, doing what you are supposed to do, and it won’t matter what they track - because you’ll be doing your job, silly!
Yes, absolutely if you're in a hub office with corporate wifi. Now whether it's actually being factored into the presence reporting metrics is another story.
Stankey is watching you. Like Leon he will soon ask you to send a weekly email response to ‘what did you do last week?’. This will be a cherry on top of his RTO.
i'm kind of torn on whether to help people who dont bother to help themselves.
The FAQ on the detailed presence report we've been talking about for the past month tells you the cou is used to identify presence at core sites. It doesn't work at my site as its not a core site.
so in theory, if you were in the building for a meeting, and not on the lan you would still get credit for being there throughout the day.
in other words its just another indicator of presence. it HELPS you.
But like the people who leave a laptop in the office are finding out, leaving your phone there permanently is going to raise questions from management.
of course all this could change at any time. as they keep turning the sc--ws tighter it wouldn't surprise me to find them start using computer activity. But that is not in the presence report today. Nor have we heard of a single report of someone being in trouble with HR for being inactive on teams to much. The whole point of being in the same office is collaboration. which is face to face.
They bought the "invisible fence" and will be requiring workers to put on dog collars.
It's good for dogs
“ Coffee badgers need to become Luddites.”
Anyone who understands the true motivation and goal for “AI” would do likewise.
Badge swipes are sufficient for tracking entry into any such Geofence they may set up. Missed LAN pings are sufficient enough to track if you maintain a working presence presumably inside the fence. Geofencing is not important. What is important is that your laptop is not idle, you are st-----g that keyboard or providing voice input on a MS Teams call. Don’t bother with setting up fake meetings or camping out because MS Teams Telemetry data is unmatched. It reports out on attendees, duration, entry and exit times, participation, and so much more. When we see a solo meeting attendee use MS Teams to prevent the idle flag, they’re go first, same with playing a minimized video. That’s not to say you can’t game the system, but don’t use the obvious tactics.
If you have a cou I assume geofence gives you a credit even if you do not login to your laptop. Meetings etc
“ Geofencing works by creating a virtual boundary around a specific geographic area using technologies like GPS, Wi-Fi, or cellular data. When a device enters or exits this boundary, it triggers a preprogrammed action, such as sending a notification or alert.”
It has been used for years for outside forces. It tracks in/out times when one crosses the geofence around an assigned building or other locations.