AVPs and above received their first set of RTO reports this week. Each employee was ranked as fully compliant, somewhat compliant, or non-compliant based on their designation, badge swipes, LAN/VPN usage, and other criteria. Number of hours worked, login/logout times, and IP addresses are being monitored.
Concern over too many employees working early hours is apparent and also under evaluation.
HR Business Intelligence team generates the Power BI for RTO & HWWW. It’s created by one of their best people. He understands dimensional model relationships. The reporting is rock solid, it’s automated and combines badge feeds, vpn/ip and cross references infor data. The report uses automatic hierarchy filters. The good news is that your manager can barely manage his or her own commute and opening a simple dashboard will baffle them to their wits end. I.e., if I have 8 employees and 4 are coming in 3 days a week…. Whoa, getting dizzy.
How many people are working on generating the metrics and creating the new dashboard to keep track of employees? I’d love to get a job working on that project, sounds like job secure position. Maybe if people spent more time on a plan to make money, we wouldn’t have to pay people to track who’s online and when, just to come up with another way to create a list of who to cut from the payroll. Ge-z
Everyone knows the goal of this micro management initiative is to reduce headcount ……..which will result in wrongful termination lawsuits.
Save the RTO paper trail, recordings, emails , messages and your employee info as you may need it.
I bet a hungry attorney has already been circling this board and wondering how to contact everyone that gets fired for a class action lawsuit.
It must be too hard to hire competent supervisors. What a joke.
This is true, except for one correction: it's L3 and above, not AVP and above.
Come on, folks. A decade ago when I was hourly I would go to the VPN history site to check my hours logged in to accurately do my timesheets. It even had IP location data which told where I was logged in at: home, my parent’s house, or at the beach.
We have access to a badge swipe site too? Where? CSO?
Who cares. I hope they confront me about this.
"Any manager can log in and see their own badge swipe history." Can you tell us a bit more on how to find that website? I've never been shown it.
They have the data and they are getting the data but the early reporting isn't that detailed. It WILL be that detailed but it's not there yet.
They also don't care if people come in early or not that's a hilarious statement. Right now it's badge swipes and if you are logging into the network. It will be time on the network soon but not yet.
Totally believe the data exists. Doubt they have something up and working correctly with such a short turn around time. Also, how can you hold someone to metrics if you haven't verified they are correct? Oh wait, I know how. No one will ensure it is correct until someone points out they were in the building on a day the report shows they weren't. Same way all metrics work.
"do you really believe that for AVPs and higher levels are provided such granulated data"
Adding another "absolutely" to the pile. I've worked with a Compliance Director here and he'd brag about having all this data and more on everyone.
Glad I'm interviewing for another company. Can't wait to get out of this micromanaging bullsh-t 🫡
" So, now going in early is a problem??"
Yes. By being proactive and finding a way to comply YET not experiencing the proper level of misery which might lead you to quit, you are circumventing the intent of the initiative.
9-5 for you, effective immediately.
Terminations for cause are heading to an office your way. No severancez
“Concern over too many employees working early hours is apparent and also under evaluation.”
To work in Atlanta or Dallas (and most metro areas) and get ahead of morning or evening traffic - you have to go in early. AND to claim the seat you reserved or someone else will - checked in or not. I’ve had issues when going in at a normal time and all my leadership will say is, “go in early”. So, now going in early is a problem??
As long as you get your work done, and attend the meetings you host, or you’re requested to be at, I don’t see what the problem is with going in early.
Work in Atlanta. Absolutely people are adhering to policy. Come in very early to nab a parking space and an actual space to work at. Damn reservation system is absolutely frustrating. Can never get space unless very early on it for 14 days out. Still love my work but hate this insane policy that is grounded in making working here frustrating and maddening. Just the fact we are at or over capacity 2-3 days a week. WTF!!! If you require me to come into the office PLEASE give me the workspace to do so. Don't ask 100%+ of people reporting to a site with only 60% space capacity for them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They are most definitely getting the data. Can confirm.
Managers are starting their days early so they can leave early. In our organization, we have been told that we need to work at least 8 hours in the office each day even though we are not paid hourly, so early in, early out.
" do you really believe that for AVPs and higher levels are provided such granulated data"
Why yes, I certainly do, 100%...how long have you worked here?
It's the VP that's going to get called on the carpet for a workforce underneath them that isn't complying.
"too many employees working early hours"
What does this mean exactly? Leaving early? Or shifting entire schedule toward the morning?
Its' real. My managers told us about same.
Most managers have cou phone and they can work off of that if they leave 2hrs early. Nobody is staying the full 8hrs at work. Come by 3pm to 4 everyone's gone, except the hourly folks. Sounds to me this post is about hourly employees
Any manager can log in and see their own badge swipe history. There’s a website on the company intranet that houses this information. The data already exists and it’s simply a matter of putting it to use.
I've been with AT&T Business for over a decade and I've seen so many tactics to manipulate the employee base. The OP posting this smells like one of them but also the message of leadership monitoring your VPN access and Office attendance - it's old and tired. Sure, maybe they do it but it's been used to scare the employee base over and over and over ... So, really, let's see what they are gonna do about it. They are ALREADY surplussing everyone frantically because Stankey is the hole in the hull of this sinking ship. It just shows how ridiculous the leadership is if they are focused on this.
I could create and publish a powerBI site showing these metrics in a day if asked. Of course they have the data. The question is what will they do with it.
Wait until the cat is let out of the bag about AI sensors monitoring office traffic patterns, behaviors, etc. It’s all real - and it’s coming. The decks and documents are out there.
Some frustrated manager tries to scare people here with obvious company attitude. Go to Insider portal and replay some Stinky's archived sessions instead. You could be enlighted then.
We all know that analytics and monitoring exists, but why OP "published" this bunch of BS is mystery for me. Just example:
"badge swipes, LAN/VPN usage" - do you really believe that for AVPs and higher levels are provided such granulated data?
My mange was receiving reports earlier in the year. I got asked about why I had 0% in office for a given week. I told him it was do to being out of the country on vacation. Seems like they would check that ??
The sheer ignorance of so called employees on the site ki-ls me. You all have no idea the data and analytics available to management. This is absolutely factual.
y'all are crazy. Of course there are intranet url's and sharepoint links that YOU DO NOT HAVE access that exists solely for role based VP to run a Power BI report that lists what OP notes. Some of y'all are working like it's the 90's. That's the kind of fat we can cut.
PowerBi folks, that’s where the data exists and is being pushed out to EVPs and above. So play by the rules or you will suffer the co sequences.
The employees are daring leadership to do something about it. The employee base only took the mandate seriously the first week.
They believe that leadership is inept and will be unable to enforce the policy.
You are all bark and no bite Stankey!
We dare you to terminate those who are not showing up 3 days a week. That was the threat right??
Are you actually in charge here? Or maybe this is just another example of you not knowing what the ph--k you are doing.
If you keep allowing the employees to sp-t in your face the “cancer” will only spread.
I don’t think you have the backbone to do anything about it!
This is factual our manager told us yesterday he received a report on who had been badging in to the office and that some people were not going in. Told us during a meeting so this sounds completely true
Too bad leadership doesn't get or pay attention to reports that could actually make the company successful.
And speaking of reports - investors get their reports also, so everyone can "rank" this company's leadership performance, which has nothing to do with workers' RTO compliance.
Useless is to provide information without possibility to verify it. At first you wrote that they 'recieved set' and next time you mentioned 'web portal'. Try to be consistent with your fantasies.
its not fake. goes to show 99% of the people here are bargained delusional employees that have no idea about analytics. LMAO
Amazing how useless this website becomes when someone actually brings real information forward. This is the reason why no real information or leaks are shared here anymore. People immediately try to debunk claims or act as disinformation agents while those informed get drowned out.
Believe what you want to believe. Not my problem.
I trust you now. You have persuaded me by the "web portal". Sounds very solid.
I can assure you there is nothing fake about this post. You may not want to believe it, but there is a web portal accessible by leaders across business units that allows them to view reports on their teams/DRs. They are watching very closely.