#badgeswipes

I am in the department that houses everything security related and was told by a person who actually reports this stuff...
While badge swipes ARE still being tracked - tracked as in making sure you are there 5 days/week, you trolling mongorals - but VPN usage is ALSO being monitored.

This is to prevent coffee badging, basically. When you go to an office, you have to connect to the building's/whatever area you are in WiFi before you can connect to VPN. Therefore your computer is assigned an internal Dell IP address. As soon as you connect to that, it starts getting logged. As soon as you disconnect and go home, that gets logged.

The minimum time they want is 1 hour of connectivity as of now.

Source - work with the guy who literally sends these reports up the chain.

At 11:15 in the morning whether you’re working in the office or from home your laptop takes a photograph of your screen to monitor what you’re doing. Don’t believe it? Close all your windows at 11:13 and watch what happens at 11:15.

Between breathing down our necks about coming in three days, coffee badging, making people in Richardson and Chicago swipe their badge to leave at the end of the day and this, we’re being watched more and more.

We never got a warning or anything. But we did get a novel with instructions for a new process to log in to work remote.

With RCE having finally implanted turnstiles to badge in and out, do they do any time tracking? Doubt it would show up on a dashboard but for any sites who have had them, any consequences?

I’ve heard rumors that they are starting or have started to track how long you are connected to the internal corporate network. Has anyone heard about this? I know they can see badge swipes and internal network connection but is it true they are now monitoring how long you are connected to the internal network?

6 hrs mandatory with badge out.

Asking for a friend who is expecting an offer.

Is it 2 days per week ? Or can done 4 days a week and skip full next week ?

Are there any min hours in office requirement ? Or is coffee badging ok ?

There are absolutely times when people should be together, but in reality those times are few and far between. If the work actually benefits from being face to face, great. Get everyone in the room and get your sh-t done.

But that’s not what 5x RTO has become… We’re tracking badge swipes, building dashboards, calculating hours and obsessing over whether someone’s a-s was physically in a chair for eight hours. All for… what?

So people can drive to an office, put on headphones, open Teams and work remotely from the office?… Seriously, what the fu-k are we doing?

If my entire day is Teams calls, emails, spreadsheets and work with people sitting in different buildings or different states, then forcing me to commute to do it from a cubicle isn’t collaboration. It’s pointless theater.

I could do the exact same work from my house just like I did for a decade before Covid. I’d get more done, I’d be less burned out, and AT&T wouldn’t have to waste money supporting the office just so somebody can say we were “present.”

Bring people together when there’s a reason to be together. Stop confusing physical presence with productivity. They are not aligned.

If the end result of 5x RTO is that I commute an hour to sit in a building and work remotely from my desk, then congratulations, you did it (and nothing else)!

Way to go baldo! You just reinvented working from home - with traffic. What a joke!

Hi everyone! Does anyone here go to the Richmond, VA PP? Does it have a badge-out system?

What happens with banked vacation (e.g. 200 hrs) if I get rebadged?

Will that transfer?
Will that be lost?
Will that be payed out?

I had to get some papers and my sunglasses from my desk at 388 NYC today. Tapped in just after dawn, left and was home by 9am, that counts as a office day. I moved my mouse every 5-7mts or so from home and did virtually nothing today. I'll take off Thursday/Friday so that's my 'office' for the week and my boss and MD know. No RIF for me because I'm like Lancôme, worth it! Be useless my friends....

Wanted to let folks know. I'm in the bay area. i just scored a fully remote job that pays about 25%. No more badge swipes for me. Life is about to get very good for me, planning to do some airbnb and travel overseas. Friday i'm going to drop the news on my boss.

Why are we measuring workplace engagement with physical badge swipes? Is this how effective leaders measure employee engagement in 2026 when tech enables top talent to collaboration from anywhere? Policies like this make employees less engaged. What are we doing here? Who is signing off on these policies? Were there literally no better ideas?! We are going to become a case study: The Collapse of the Edward Jones Culture - How Not To Lead.

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The question isn’t why they’re leaving. The question is… what do they know that you don’t?

Morale is collapsing. Talent is walking out the door. People spend more time worrying about where their job might be moved next than how to grow the business. RTO and FTW are a major distraction and ruining what’s left of the company.

Meanwhile, leadership remains fixated on RTO, badge swipes, and presence reports as the company continues to lose ground.

RTO hasn’t created growth. It hasn’t created innovation. It hasn’t improved execution. It’s become a distraction from the real problems and significantly reduced hours. I can’t get in contact with anyone in the afternoon anymore.

At a time when the company needs stability, focus, and a reason for people to stay, leadership is kicking the company while it’s already down.

You can’t attract new young talent when you have prison policy. Nobody worthwhile is willingly signing up for this.

Does anyone know whether badge swipes are actually being tracked and if they are to what extent?

I’m not trying to call anyone out, and I certainly won’t be naming names, but it’s getting increasingly difficult to justify coming into the office five days a week when the building feels emptier by the day.

The communication around RTO has been incredibly vague. Other than the dry a$$ generic email that went out in January, there hasn’t been much clarity on expectations, enforcement, or how compliance is being measured.

If badge swipes aren’t being tracked, what exactly is the point of complying and coming in?

Does anyone else feel like workplace monitring has gone way too far?

Badge swipes logged... VPN activity closely watched. Teams status checked (and tracked). Calendars scanned. Emails parsed... Productivity fu--ing evaluated.... AI note-takers showing up in meetings, nobody asked for them....

Then executives act surprised when morale is awful and people do not trust management. At this point, I assume every company laptop is basically a tracking device that also happens to run work apps.

I have it on good authority that the next round of layoffs will be mid-July. This first one was more of a reorganization and getting rid of low-output associates. The next one will be based on attendance and people who don't fit the ways of working set forth. July 7th or 14th is being floated around as the date. I would highly recommend people who want to keep their jobs to come into the office on time and leave at 5 PM as instructed. Additionally to not abuse the flexible pto that is granted. Your peers and leadership are watching and keeping track of in-seat and badge swipes.

Is it really tracked by badge swipes?????

It finally happened today: my supervisor told me I was on “the list” for not swiping my badge enough.

I pointed out the irony that we’re raising product prices because of higher oil costs, yet somehow there’s never any corresponding increase in cost-of-living adjustments for us peons.

I want to work from home tomorrow, but I don’t want to miss my mighty badge swipe

Work for a satellite office, don’t see much of a difference. Are they just tracking badge swipes at worst? I highly doubt this is enforceable across a 50k employee base

Has anyone been flagged for not coming enough?

I work for US Bank's competitor and out of curiousity checked this site. I see a lot of uproar about RTO...believe me, we also went through it in 2022.

My advice to all of you is to be careful.
If they aren't checking your in network office time, they will be. A bunch of our employees got fired over swiping badges and leaving or minimal office network connectivity.
A bunch of others got fired because they were in non compliance.

Sadly, you won't win this fight. We have also tried everything and the push back was immense. Corporate America is all copying each other and they want people back in offices.

Wish you all the best.

They ain’t tracking sh*t keep doing it…

How many out there are now losing their sh-t bc just swiping your badge didn't count and you have no days in office? Su-ks they ran it back 5 months. I wonder if those people are getting the chop.

ALL they care about are badge swipes. That's it. Swipe your badge and you get a gold star for "going to the office."

But does anyone ACTUALLY stay for a full workday? I mean, I drive an hour to the office and stay for 1.5-2 hours and then go home because why stay? Cafeteria food prices are way more expensive than ever and none of the food is not worth the price. One person on my actual team goes to my office and we both leave at the same time. Which is typically 11:30-12pm.

Anyone working on a campus expecting to have to swipe out of the building at the end of the day? I hate to think this is the next move, but I wouldn’t be surprised.

I’m considering an offer at PNC but want to know what it’s actually like. Is it five full days? Do people badge in and then leave at lunch and work the rest of the day at home? I don’t think I can ever go back to five full days but the role seems interesting. So just want to get a sense.

I got sent screenshot of my office report after I was told I wasn't making it in the required amount of time. (I had an approved exception for some time January, which wasn't factored into the report making it look like, I haven't been in the required time).

4 hrs of pto counts as a day in as do holidays.

Ask any questions you may have!

I’m sure most of you noticed there is now tracking of your badge swiped available in Workday.

When you open the report, there is a column labeled “Office Designation”

What does everyone’s say for that? I was told I have to come to the office but my designation says “Out of office”

My director told me the other day that execs are only looking for a minimum of 45 days/quarter of in office visits. A quarter is 13 weeks which c ums out to be 65 business days. Which is basically 3-4 days/week and is also the same as what it was when it was optional 2 years ago. PTO and holidays don't count against you so, at least you can plan your RTO visits now. I sure af will anyways.

I also asked if they have plans on monitoring IN OFFICE time and he said no but if they ever do, then it has to go through legal and HR first, then be made an official policy.

FYI, those of you who are going in 5 days/week and working 8 hours IN office... technically speaking, your orgs execs can't hold you to being in office for 8 hours as that is not an official policy.

The policy is that they monitor badge swipes. There is zero mention of time spent in office, however. Heck, even my director told us with a wink to do with that info as we wish - aka badge swipe and go home, if you want.

Long story short, there is NO policy that demands ANY employee stay for 8 hours a day, or any set amount of time. Those of you who are, are being taken advantage of by your loser executives.

Does a “badge swipe” count if you only badge at the front doors, or do you have to also badge at the turnstyle? Asking for a friend

Or are we ok with just swiping my badge and leaving after lunch?

Things I learned today. We have 3 employees with a FTO designation. Never once been to the office in the 19 months since it was mandated for us. They say the RTO mandate was never intended for them. Their lives have been more difficult and they've faced more challenges than the rest of us. It gets better. They are part of some loose knit group who conveniently believe minority women cannot be their best unless they work from home. It's important for their children to see them as they set the standard for their coworkers. I have questions, but the most pressing is, how is it I get warned twice about a 15 minute blip on the presence report, and this concerted effort to thwart RTO exists for 19 months? Make me understand.

Supervisors can see when direct reports are not in the office. Are they able to see the time the employee badge in and out of the building too?

Anyone in HR/IT/security know if they’re tracking time spent in office or if badging in is enough?

Facing a dangerous cold snap that will impact most of the HCSC offices, not a single message was sent from anyone that said “you know what, because we value your health and safety, don’t worry about badging in on Friday. Your wellbeing is our more important to us than checking a box or monitoring your whereabouts.”

How is your RTO going?
I hear that all offices are packed and do not have enough space, not enough conference rooms, etc…. Certainly the case in Dallas and Atlanta!

I do go 3 times a week, but just badge in and go home right away.

Been trying to organize a badge-in service, but looks like all people are a bunch of pu----s…

Time to raise up and organize an insurrection against the IBM Execs!

My manager believes to follow the company direction (3 times per a week) and my team is forced to go while all other people I work with still work from home 100 percent.

Office is always empty and there are just a few teams I know comply with return to office directive.

Last layoff had nothing to do with it either. Nobody who still works from home got impacted

I am in DFW. Is your office empty too?

Are badge swipes one of variables used for layoffs?