#badgeswipes

The last time I was in the same state as a teammate of mine was in March 2020. I go into office, no one talks to me and I talk to no one, then I badge out. Depressing.

I heard that badge tracking for in-office hours is back. Does anyone know how they’re calculating the hours? Is it based on your first badge-in and last badge-out of the day?

I’m curious because sometimes when I leave for lunch, I use the café door, which is usually open, so I don’t have to badge out. However, when I come back in, I sometimes have to badge in again. Does anyone know how that affects the hours being tracked?

Come on Comcast!! Folks are more productive when they can work office closer to home rather than commuting. Shall we start submitting gas expenses. Put your badging system as one system

It’s comical that here in JAB we’re told to come in 4 days a week while the garage is perpetually closed, and lot spots are full.

Meanwhile the bigwig reserved parking spots are totally empty so we disposable grunts must manage to find a spot. All to get our badge swipe

(Pro tip: I found you can park in those reserve spots without repercussion, just like how people make their own creative spot)

Do we know how serious reporting will be around these specific weeks? I am only scheduled to work one day each of those weeks and I don’t mind going in to keep in adherence but it will be two consecutive days off because it’s a Wednesday I am working and then off that Friday. If I’m going to be out of adherence and flagged either way I might as well not go in

If any manager has experience, please let us know what you are looking at the most and what happens if you have attendance issues on your team

I didn’t realize people were still working from Cleient Centers other than the client facing colleageuse. Have you all been going there to get your badge swipes or something? Or were you assigned there and the announcement about them revoking your badge access doesn’t even effect you anyways ?

Rumor going around in BH that total badge swipes will be done end of year to see how many days you came in office minus the remote flexibility days. Not sure how true this is.

Back and in fashion

…wasn’t streaming. Any actual updates from Takis? In-office mandates, badging, etc?

So far, nothing actually useful.

Why do so many people not use the EZTag to access campus? Every morning I have to wait for 10 people all slowing down, opening their window, fumbling with their badge, then finally opening the gate. We need to start each year’s NSI pool with these people

Our focus is on badge swipes for RTO and building a new campus no one wants because nobody really needs an office anymore. We even sell the service that enables WFH. But don’t worry it’ll be loaded with a bunch of junk that nobody will use because it hasn’t been cool for nearly 25 years. We are always way too late to the game. Starlink isn’t a real threat when you have a multibillion dollar office like this.

Anyone find out how many hours or how they're tracking yet?

People who are being laid off have their badges going inactive on Thursday but are employed until 12/31. So they essentially get to work at home while we have to go into the office 4 days. Nice way to reward your dedicated workers Comcast!

Seeing a lot of variation: some groups on 3 days, many on 4, some exempt roles on 5 — seemingly at manager discretion. Plus badge-in to badge-out 8-hour tracking, week by week.

What's your group on, and has it changed this year?

Was anyone able to confirm whether or not an end of year expiration means you’re getting let go?

Is it normal for badge access expiration dates to change unexpectedly? Mine now appears to expire later this year. Has anyone else experienced this?

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/08/spacex-spectrum-license-att-verizon-tmobile.html

Stink and “Leadership” laughed at Starlink and said they weren’t a real threat. Look where we are now.

SpaceX is making moves to become a serious competitor in wireless, acquiring nationwide low-band spectrum that could help Starlink Mobile compete directly with AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile. $T stock down 7.5% on the news.

And what the fu-k are we focused on? Badge swipes, 5x RTO and how many bowling alleys to put in Stinkey’s new corporate fantasy factory.

The industry is changing right in front of us, and leadership is worried about forcing people into an office instead of focusing on the competition, innovation and the future of this business.

We’re fighting employees over where they sit while competitors are fighting for the future of connectivity.

Get this loser Stinkey out before he does any more damage.

If an employee badge-in or office activity occurs during the first week of October, when does that data officially populate in the manager’s report?
What is the cut-off date/time for weekly activity to be captured in that period's report?

Two employees outright fired today for non-compliance with the RTO policy. Company was well prepared with legal and HR. They had been warned twice, and apparently on their calls HR had a lot of data around badge swiping, interviews w office snitches, log in detail. Zero severance. Looks like then you get two warnings.

Be aware.

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