#monitoring

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.

Considering applying for a WF role. Been monitoring this thread and there seems to be a lot of complaints around the in office policy, which I understand to be 3 days in office, and they are ensuring people stay for 8 hours on those days. My current role is 4/1, but no close monitoring of actual hours in office (yet).

Want to confirm it’s 8 hours in office they are requiring, and ask if you can come in earlier, for example 7am, and leave earlier if you need to - versus 9-5.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAN-NApZlCA

Yesterday, my computer started lagging and freezing. I use a high performance MacBook Pro, so this was odd. I tried to restart, but I was stopped by a pop-up that said "NexThink" software was being installed and restarting would cause data loss and performance issues. The popup disappeared in less than a second and my computer restarted.

Sure enough, when I checked my task manager logs, a handful of processes from "NexThink" were running, which I'd never seen on my machine before.

I was also one of the Mac users whose in-office time wasn't accounted for in the first quarter. So, while I'm hoping this is a fix to that issue, it seems like it's mostly just employee monitoring software.

Hi All - do you know how strictly they are monitoring things? What's being evaluated and tracked?

Mass furloughs, told you on march 21st, 1 month ago, and would have been sooner, BNSF corporate monitoring and trying to state lies and distract from what they are doing, more furloughs most likely coming on Friday or Monday.

I heard that they are not monitoring RTO attendance any more? Is there anyone who may be able to confirm?

Just a heads up to any coffee badgers - MS Teams is reporting your location activity and it is being actively monitored by HR. If you are coffee badging, you will be caught and once enough data is available for a "for cause termination", you will be fired without warning/notice.

Just got out of a meeting with team members where one of the seniors alluded to a secret program that only seniors have access to. Even after trying to go into details of what they were referring to, the conversation quickly moved on from it. Why does it feel like they are going to be watching us and monitoring us more now than during Covid?

Be sure to use your Co-Pilot (or other AI tools) at least a few times a day. This is being monitored, measured, and reported directly to your manager. This could be another way to decide who stays and who goes. Source: one of my friends who works on UHC side… their manager actually showed them this report.

Hearing from several different LOB friends that the RTO reporting is no longer being monitored. Any managers have intel on this?

Can confirm that company is actively monitoring office attendance and employees who are not complying with what is now policy will be terminated. Also, outside of sales-coded roles, there will be NO hiring for virtual employees. Waterloo is the primary favored location due, in part, to a lower salary range for Canada and the fact no health care contribution is required. In short, Canadian employees cost less.

Company IS eliminating 15-20 percent of the current workforce through WFRs, carve outs, performance and violation of policy.

Watch your back. Managers and leaders also work from company sites as they are also required to adhere to office policy outside of sales and yes, they will report you if they see coffee badging.

Bumping this from @jq+1kpeh2t5w for info.

Got flagged for occasional coffee badging. They must be monitoring the cameras. Any others?