#monitoring

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?

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

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.

I work in IT, and here's something worth keeping in mind.

Be careful what you say during Microsoft Teams calls. Even when a meeting isn't being recorded, it is still being transcribed. There's a bot that joins calls in the background, and you won't necessarily see it.

Your laptop activity is monitored, which you probably already know. What you might not realize is that activity on internal company websites can be logged down to individual clicks and keystrokes.

Some people will say you're foolish to discuss anything sensitive on company-owned equipment. They'd be correct.

I am hearing requirement of minimum 6 hours per day in office is coming. Possible announcement coming on November 15th. Also it will be tracked.

For any plants with AI cameras already installed. Any feedback? Are they really “just for safety “? Anyone fired from actions caught on camera?

Does anybody have an insight on how these dashboard work?
has anybody been given a warning or pip for not adhering?

WF's employee privacy notice, revised June 2026, reserves the right to monitor email, chats, calls, video recordings, internet use, office access data, computer activity, and CCTV — and says AI may be used as part of monitoring.

In plain words: "You should not expect privacy," including on your own device under BYOD policies.

WF is also among banks trialing AI facial recognition to monitor employees and customers.

Source: Wells Fargo Employee Privacy Notice, June 2026; OECD.AI.

Just fyi...hearing rumors HR is monitoring time in office and taking action without notifying management for people spending less than 2h in office.

this has been going around and around, but passing along again

Are they monitoring total time spent in the office, or is badge-swipe activity sufficient regardless of hours logged?

Any news on 11/12? No bad signs from my org yet, but always keeping an eye out

Big brother is watching.
Instead of coming here to learn about issues and what people think, ET (KT) is more concerned with reprimanding those who might be posting. As if there are not more important things they could focus time and resources on. Hey, ET, this is part of the problem.

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.

Hearing more and more chatter that the return-to-office mandate could soon be moving to 4 days a week.
Also hearing that VPN activity is being tracked to see when people are connecting remotely vs being in the office — and that use of company AI tools/prompts may be logged or monitored too, so worth remembering that what you type into work systems might not necessarily be private. 👀
Then this video pops up saying tougher office mandates can sometimes be used to drive natural attrition before bigger restructuring or layoffs…
Coincidence? Maybe. But with everything else going on, the timing is interesting. 😂

I want to know if anyone knows FACTUAL intel information like if IP tracking will become retroactive or enforced or if more days will be required

Reversing policies to relax RTO is even better

Former colleague that supports what's left of our Corporate Properties group has heard firsthand that badge readers are being installed at restroom entrances. The "company speak" is that its being done for employee safety, not monitoring your bathroom breaks ....remember when employees were getting bonked over the head in STL???? The purchase order to get the first 180 readers has been approved, and implementation will start in Charlotte and Minneapolis. you better hold it!!!! SO glad I'm out!

Just got a gem of a note from my manager stating that my team isn't using AI tools enough. Based on the "latest reports" we're lacking compared to other teams. Apparently our usage is getting monitored now. Oh joy. Copilot is practically unusable but I guess we're supposed to train it to do our jobs.

Has anyone actually physically seen the reporting management is receiving based upon computer usage?

What exactly is on this report?

We care enough to send a generic email about the storm but you better be in the office in person. We are monitoring your badge swipes and WFH activity.

Hearing rumors they are not looking at just badge swipes any more and are now looking at ip addresses of laptops and where people are accessing the network from.

Has anyone heard more about this?

Here to shear that there is a massively supportive corporate level campaign to monitor and manage compliance with the RTW mandates. This includes the 5-day requirement for employees who have always been assigned to an office to badge in five days a week, and the January 2027 requirement for former remote employees close enough to an office to work 5 days a week in office.

Leaders are cautioned to monitor dashboard activity and use non-compliance for employee exits. HR is also monitoring aggressively. If you have an under table agreement with you direct manager, HR is overseeing it all. Plan accordingly.

Received an email from the out placement company about optional information sessions. It came from “Agreements” with subject “LHH Overview Session.” A very unassuming email, but has me extra vigilant now in monitoring my junk folder as I get closer to my separation date!

So apparently we’re being told our activity is being tracked… but no one can tell us what activity they’ve tracking yet. 😂

Like… what exactly are you monitoring? Keyboard activity? Teams status? Logins? Time in applications? Mouse movement? Because I’M WORKING LOL.

“We’ll let you know soon what’s being tracked” is such a wild thing to tell employees. What the f&$% are we doing here?! 😂

How are all the BU’s feeling about Devon rolling out the new Samsara fleet cameras with forward/rear facing cameras and microphones. Just tell your people you don’t trust them at this point.

It’s official. A manager officially announced they installed software to monitor offshore folks. Ended up cutting 6 of them. Stated not watching FTEs but that’s a bold faced lie. If you go to the bathroom too long you’ll start being micromanaged be careful out there!

Anyone from IT or Security that can chime in.
I know that we are tracking I am just unsure what's being tracked.

Occasionally both my laptop and external monitor blink black at very precise intervals. It's happened probably 2-3x/yr since we went WFH about 2020. Now it's becoming more frequent. It almost seems like a screen shot is taken exactly every 10 min. Does this happen to anyone else? How frequently? If it is monitoring, what triggers it, who sees it, how is it being used?

P.S. I know there is no privacy at work/on their equipment, and see the disclaimer every morning. I'm mostly curious.

Is burning AI tokens being monitored, if yes, is it the once on hyperspace being monitored or even usage of EKX counts

What’s the real reason for the desktop tracking? I can’t help but think there’s more to it than “streamlining processes” for us. I’m concerned they are trying to pinpoint idle employees or something. Anyone have insight on this

Now that Teams is active, does anyone know if they are screen capturing non member employees? Are they targeting specific individuals? What about keyboard and mouse tracking?

I've got a week of WFH coming up (taking 3 half-day PTOs). To try to manage my burnout levels, I am thinking of getting a short-term rental somewhere nice and working from it for the week, rather than from my normal home office. I'm not sure if this is going to trigger any kind of monitoring that might cause a problem for me. Is there any known monitoring around what location you are connecting from?

Prior to the pandemic, when I had a full time telecommute agreement, I did this once or twice a year. My wife and I would rent a beach house or a place up in the mountains and hole up for the week. Still working but changing the scenery for awhile. It did wonders for my mental health. Never cleared it with a manager, just did it and never heard squat about it being a problem. But I haven't done anything like this since 2022, and given the way leadership has been flailing around about RTO and putting various heavy-handed monitoring in place, I'm not sure if it will still fly these days.

Any advice appreciated.

Has anyone else noticed that Joe Parks came from Pizza Hut (technically the IT affiliate) and when he was there he oversaw the implementation of AI. In May 2026 a NY franchise owner opened a $100M lawsuit against Pizza Hut because they forced AI to be used and it was a disaster. Service tanked and sales dropped. Ironically Joe left them 6 or so months before the lawsuit. Hmmmm seems to me like he might have had a feeling something ugly was coming.

Now my real concern is the same exact thing is happening at SF. I work in ET and I can confirm 100% that the use of AI is getting crammed down our throats. We are being monitored to see how often we use it (being encouraged it should be daily) and leadership is pushing hard for use cases that make no sense. Sounds like Pizza Hut 2.0

Existing software to be implemented to track technicians locations onsite. It is already in operation in some sites. Managers will be responsible to track and cross reference with PMs to weed out slackers and site leavers.

Not sure why but, I have a hunch that onsite swipes are no longer being monitored by execs. They took the dashboard away from all of us (IC's and leaders) and I suppose the only reason for doing so is to make us blindly go in and not calculate days we dont?

Even at that though, my personal opinion is that Dell has conditioned us to go in 5 days/week "or else" and will never tell us directly if it's STILL being monitored. So, for all we know they aren't monitoring jack and we have no idea... but go in like good sheep... out of fear and fear alone.

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.

If they want to continue to treat us like children what’s stopping us from acting like children?

You know RTO5 is absolutely coming soon. They will start monitoring how long you’re working somehow.

Have a long commute? You better be working while driving. If not you better work as soon as you wake up and as soon as you get home to make up for the commute you didn’t ask for.

If you have this running on your laptop, you are getting a notice.
It's a code42 program used to extensively monitor your file transfers.

Of course it’s not about collaboration. But companies are worse than pre covid with the on office stuff. I know someone at another company that said a senior manager sits by the door to see who is leaving “early”. Like 5 minutes early. Seriously what is going on? All the big companies are doing it. Spending money monitoring stuff that you thought went away in the early 2000s.