Yes, it's a thing. Yes, we're being tracked. HR has an entire tech team that's working on PBI reports. I know several people in HR and it's all being driven by Stankey and Lee (who covers HR since Angela left). I've been with the company almost 15 years and have never seen morale this low. It's sad and I don't think it's unique. Everywhere that's forcing RTO is hitting employee morale hard. Why? Because we were told they cared about work life balance. Yes, we're being tracked should've known they were lying to us.
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“ There WAS a small 2 yr window when leaving a company meant greener pastures, but that has closed. Musical chairs chasing work/life balance and a couple bucks more an hour are done. IF you choose to leave, and you do not have something else lined in stone, you do so at your own peril“
Do you not understand how the economy works? The power balance shifting from employee to employer and back again is an inevitable cycle, one I have seen several times over 3 decades. It will continue to do so.
Don’t forget the discreet monitoring they can do through Teams and your COU device, to listen to you and your surroundings even when not on calls.
Dad to say, but that makes me glad to be in the office. I lock that stuff away from me and my family when I am off. Privacy is privacy when it is time to be private.
This is not unique to T only. Large scale business across every industry is implementing RTO policies.
They are rounding up the sheep and taking back power and control. Just look around at these posts since the flu shutdown and you get the sense that the prisoners think they run the show. SLT'S are going to prove otherwise. Get on board or get gone is their steadfast at this point. There WAS a small 2 yr window when leaving a company meant greener pastures, but that has closed. Musical chairs chasing work/life balance and a couple bucks more an hour are done. IF you choose to leave, and you do not have something else lined in stone, you do so at your own peril! Wish the best for all to get their own but the almighty are reigning it back in.
FYI: Everything is tracked and available for reporting, it's your chain of command (starting with L1s) that determines how it is used. A basic COU report shows every app on your COU device, to/from calls, location of your cell, etc. IT reports show Wi-Fi, LAN, VPN logging information, serial number of every device (even keyboards) connected to your PC, IP address, etc. Your email is monitored for attachments and contents, and flagged for keywords, especially if sent off network. And documents sent to printers are scanned for prohibited images. Every website you visit and application you run is logged. The badging reports and CCTV recordings are all centralized across all CRE for viewing anywhere. I've both seen and used these reports as an L2 and L3. The Company is not spying on you, it is fulfilling its obligation to manage its business to prevent fraud, theft of services, wages, trade secrets and intellectual property. You would do nothing different if you were the owner of a small business with employees. You have nothing to worry about (or complain about) if you simply do your job as you were hired to do.
And then?
Tracking capability has been around for years. Just recently they have decided to refine the data and publicize it. Not counting the WFH deal the past few years, some of the performance issues have always been there. Thing was it was extremely difficult to keep up with everything 12-16 people were doing without it becoming a 2nd job. What happens when that information is presented on a daily basis?
“Yeah, we still don’t give a sh-t.”
But here you are adding a commenting to a post on an external website related to this topic. I don’t believe you.
HR has an entire tech team that's working on PBI reports.
Imagine wasting money on this cr-p.
Yeah, we still don’t give a sh-t.
Our boss has literally been showing us the Presence Report on our calls for the better part of a year. Pointed out the new “ swiped at assigned location” field a couple months ago when that was implemented.
This isn’t breaking news.
God knows everything.
"I don't understand why people think this is somehow new?"
Because it is new. This policy is coming from the CEO level down. In previous years the policy was set by your boss based on individual circumstances and your ability to do the job. The current RTO is being implemented like a dictatorial government . . . we don't care who you are, what you do, or how you are affected. You will comply or you will be persecuted. The policy is punitive at best and the intent is to make people miserable so they will leave.
Why is the company returning to a 20 year old way of managing people? There is only one reason that makes sense.
Ge-z, 10+ years ago our AVP was tracking our COU phone calls, data usage, badge swipes in buildings, VPN date/times, we saw the reports. Probably what you do on the PC now is definitely recorded...
I don't understand why people think this is somehow new? Always expect whatever you are doing on company equipment, devices, in buildings, etc., is potentially monitored.
We were told last year we were being tracked and on a regular basis told whether or not or team was marked as being compliant. Started as badge swipes, then reporting to the office listed in webphone and lastly if you were in the office for 6 hour.