Hear me out. Coffee badging is always talked about like it’s a bad thing. But no one is saying people aren’t working. People used it because they had to do something stupid that created no value, which was going in the office to sit at a cubicle on teams calls. So they came in and swiped to not get fired and then went home and worked a full day. If you have to run a badge swipe report to tell you who is working then you are the problem.
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The response about everything being driven by getting people to quit is right. All the forcing certain locations, certain number of days in office, certain number of hours, etc. is to get those fringe workers to quit with no severance. Why do you think they put some location back as "core"? Too many hanging on for severance....need more to quit.
we sure learned that adults are tattle tails!! they thought it would save their job ratting on another, ha! BTW, the badge/keyboard activity, Co-Pilot usage monitoring is total BS. anyone know if this happens at other companies, or just WF?
Keep thinking that HY gives an S about hours in office. They don't, never did, and never will. Their end goal is none of us ever setting foot on WF property again. Zero hours, zero days per week. That's what they want, and it's completely obvious. But go on telling us how much they want us there.
The hours per day rule had only one motivation and purpose, to torment employees in the hope that some percentage of the team would quit over it. That's it, there's nothing else. Oh, sure, they SAY it was for other reasons, but everything that comes out of their mouth is a lie. These are evil people that never speak the truth, unless they are telling us that there will be more layoffs. That actually is true. We will all go. If you're here for anything but the severance you're fooling yourself.
@OP the fact is you have to stay in office for 8 hours. Nobody cares about how many hours you spend working. You only need to stay physically for 8 hours in office , that will be fine.
Please define “coffee badge”: stay in office less than 8 hours? How about when people needs to leave early occasionally and stays in office for 6 or 7 hours?
What a brilliant observation. Have we come full circle now that people are just regurgitating the same cr-p act like it's some revelation? Actually, that sounds like our leadership.
I monitor my teams’s badging reports and if I caught someone coffee badging I would follow all the required HR notices and second chances and if they continued, I would terminate them with zero severance and zero guilt.
@c6 Many were doing just that. Many people also work during their PTO days and holidays. Facts.
I'm not going to judge coffee badging as good or bad, but I would at least suggest behavior like this is an honest signal from your workers about the value they find in in-office work. Honest signals are incredibly rare, and leaders ignore them at their peril
If you really think the coffee badging crowd was then rushing home to diligently work an eight hour, or more, day you are a mo--n. These were the same people who would not show as active for hours, or even if they were gaming the system to show as active they were unresponsive for large stretches of the day. Why? Because they weren't actually working.
You really think they are acting like WF is now like a gulag because they have to come in to do the same job they did at home? Of course not. They act that way because their four year paid vacation came to a screeching halt.
Too many were coffee badging and disappearing. Doing another job, doing dr-gs, doing their neighbor, or just doing nothing.
Own it? Absolutely.
Just as soon as you own your incessant bootlicking.
Do let me know if you ever become capable.
There were many that would coffee badge and then vanish - presumably running errands
@bg You completely missed the entire point of the OP. Completely.