I heard there are steps being taken to track us how long we are logging into the network while in the office. If we are salary, how will that even work?? Anyone else heard of this?
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Your managers bonus will be affect by the level of team compliance. Everything is in the monthly reports.
Be careful though. They could also not pay you a bonus. For me my bonus is way more than any overtime.
Just for the record Rama, my daily dump was today just before lunch.
Fortunately, no way of them tracking my daily 2:00pm rum and coke when WFH.
They're tracking everything. When you use you card to get in the office, when you use your card to leave. Also how long your Outlook/Teams goes to away.
My guess is though that whether it becomes an issue depends on team averages. Because it seems like a lot of folks still aren't coming in.
If they want to track our hours in the office, then they will also need to track our hours at home too. Which will turn us into hourly employees. And if we do work overtime over 40 hours.... they will have to pay us.
"Do not understand.
Wf pays for 8....they expect 8."
If your hourly. Then yeah. Salaried?
Doesn't work like that. I get paid regardless of workload or time.
Do not understand.
Wf pays for 8....they expect 8.
as an exempt employee once I work a minute over 4 hours it's considered a full workday. given a half day counts as in office and exempt can only deduct PTO in 4 hour increments my guess is 4 hours would be the number.
Rest assured, they are currently keeping an eye on the situation. This serves as yet another point of consideration when they prepare for the upcoming reductions. Their focus is not on the quality of the products produced; rather, if you are included on that list, it will influence decisions during the next significant round of layoffs. If you doubt my assertion, that is understandable, but it has already occurred to several individuals who exploited the system before July 2023. A list does exist.
Our executive manager keeps making vague threats about “must be in office full day” and “don’t get caught gaming the system”, yet has never said explicitly that hours are being tracked.
I also question how they can legally enforce 8 hours for exempt employees, maybe 4 or 6 hours would be slightly more plausible, but I think if they were to enforce something like that they would give a more direct heads up before any disciplinary steps, so it feels like more of a fear mongering tactic but who knows.
… And when that day comes if ever I’ll be fully compliant.
Other companies are doing it like BOA which requires 6 hours in the office to be considered an office work day. WF will do it too at some point, when is the question.
That’s my biggest question every time this topic has come up. There is literally nothing as far as a written policy that states you need to be in the office for a certain number of hours. I know firsthand in the office I go to people are not staying very long and it’s been that way for a while. I have also seen the report and it doesn’t show number of hours. Perhaps this may change in the future but again how would they go about enforcing this on exempt employees?
There is nothing in policy around enforcement of hours. Tell us what they would do with the data.
Been doing that for a while via IP address tracking. Who enforces it comes down to the LOB.
People come here with BS rumors. What a joke
2025? They do it now. Just depends if the manager/dept wants to get those reports. Most don’t.