For RTO 8 hours I know that it’s first swipe of the day and last swipe but do they look at the in and out swipes? We had an activity day in our parking lot. Wondering how that shows up- if I swiped out for 90 minutes does that count against me? Also what do the activity reports look like? Do they only track productivity when you are wfh? If I have an in person meeting where I’m not on my computer does that count against me? Should I just randomly hit keys when I have an in person to keep my numbers up in office?
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I wish I could focus on doing work and not on whether some report is showing me as unproductive because I used a whiteboard for 30 minutes to map something out.
The in-office hours report is from earliest badge swipe OR login on company network to latest badge swipe OR disconnect from network.
The reporting currently does not track ins/outs. is the data there somewhere, of course it is. If there is reason to believe someone is abusing the policy, the full data can be pulled.
This is how we got to hours-in-office folks. RTO reporting showed "in office" or "not in office". When "coffee badging" became undeniably obvious - they went to the time and effort to produce the hours-in-office reporting.
The more people abuse, the more stringent it's going to get.
It is not based on first and last badge swipe. Badge swipe in starts the clock and last activity on the network is the end time stamp.
It's supposed to be first and last swipe of the day. There's no other way they can really measure it. If you leave for lunch or meeting in another building they can't count that against you. They're trying to see who is coffee badging and who is not. They can also tell when you booted and when you shut down.
So much misinformation in this thread. Everyone hung up on specifics you have no idea what is going on. Stay the course please, makes it easier for me to keep skating by.
i imagine OP being in an exempt role - great example of how WF's culture of micromanaging, and handling professionals as if they were all non-exempt cashiers causes a distraction. All of this concern about what counts, what doesn't cu-t, and how the company is going to have a gotcha moment at their expense. huge waste of time and just drives anxiety to be treated like a pre schooler
Hours in office is based on first and last badge swipe
@OP
Yes, key hitting randomly is highly recommended.
@OP They don't track that, they track where your computer is logged in from home or office.