#monitoring

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?

This post is nothing new in regards to WF monitoring employees keyboard/mouse/Teams activity. We have been aware of that since last year. Not sure if all computers at WF are running Skan. If yours has it in the system tray be careful. They are using metrics from Skan to displace people without severance. I know this for a fact so just be sure you aren’t one that takes long breaks or inactive for long periods over days or weeks. Not meant to scare anyone just beware of it.

My manager says I am on a list for not being onsite enough from January to now. They are reporting out attendance percentages.

For the activity monitoring skeptics. Given how hard charlie fetishizes JPM, still think this concept isn't coming to Wells eventually?

https://fortune.com/2026/03/24/jpmorgan-monitoring-keystrokes-video-calls-meetings-junior-investment-bankers-its-for-employee-wellbeing/

I received an automated email recently that said, in part:

"License Management
Because M365 licenses are limited and high demand,the company expects all licensed employees are expected to demonstrate consistent usage by engaging with licensed M365 Copilot on an average of at least 3 days a week.

Usage is monitored, and unused licenses may be reassigned. Learn more: M365 Copilot usage expectations and license reallocation. Thank you for helping ensure M365 licenses are used effectively and deliver value across the organization."

I suspect this automated email was triggered because I am below the 3-day usage threshhold. Does anyone know how much attention managers are paying to this metric and if it really matters/if I should be trying to get this number up.

I'm not reflexively anti-AI, I've just found it personally not very useful for doing the things I'm tasked with. I get zero value from asking copilot to reword emails (which is how mycoworkers mainly seem to use it). At most I use it here and there to get a reminder on how to structure an excel formula, or to summarize a document. Which is not a 3-days a week thing.

I personally dont care if they yank my m365 copilot subscription but I also dont want to unnecessarily end up on management's radar as not an Ai adopter. I can fake it and start using copilot for bullsh-t but wondering how much it actually matters

Per the comms sent to all employees from the CHRO, in-office time is NOW being tracked and measured. So all the rumors can be put to bed because designated hybrid employees are being tracked for RTO indeed.

Since T states in their mandatory privacy courses that they comply with California laws, they may want to check out some of these.

State-Specific Protections (Example: California)

California provides some of the strongest protections through the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA):
employeesfirstlaborlaw.com
employeesfirstlaborlaw.com

Disclosure: Employers must disclose what data they collect and how it is used.

Right to Access: Employees may have the right to access and correct the data collected about them.

Retaliation: Employers are prohibited from retaliating against employees who exercise their privacy rights

I’ve heard the 4/1 change is on hold, but they are monitoring/reporting and will come out with changes to address ‘bad’ behavior like coffee badging. What is everyone else hearing? I find it so strange we were communicated a change and then nothing else.

Be very careful I hear they pushed monitoring software to everyone and the are actively monitoring your activity levels

I heard a grapevine that citi is tracking the hours you are on your pc or you are offline/ away from your screen. Is there any truth to it? Can managers confirm?

After the merger they got rid of all the leadership that made the company successful, and replaced it with a toxic leadership from a dying company (Sprint), and adopted it’s failing models for annual layoffs.

Fast forward to today, we’re not growing anymore. The stock is tanking, and they’re tightening the grip for in office (will be monitoring/micro managing for at least 8 hours/day for 3 days/week).

Do they really think this will make employees work harder? You would think that they would want to make it more pleasant to work here after decimating the culture, but no, they’re making it worse. Where did they get their leadership training? Any id--t would know that the people are what make the company successful, not a leadership lineup with visions that change every few years with.

Good luck trying to make me work harder or above and beyond. Sure, I’ll be in the office twiddling my thumbs and watching videos on my phone. You took away any incentive for me to go above and beyond.

My takeaway from today’s call and the chatter on this board is that RTO monitoring as it stands, is a credibility problem of our own making. We are asking employees to comply with a policy that many in leadership (including HR) itself is not following. Let’s call it what it is, enforcing RTO requirements from home isn’t just inconsistent, it’s indefensible. Either we empower and trust managers to run their teams and have discretion (yes!), or we require leaders to meet the same expectations. But a NI or termination for non-compliance while managers and HR deliver that from their couches looks pretty bad.

Track number of H1bs before and after layoff.

So it's pretty clear with this big AI push theyll be measuring usage soon as part of performance, does anyone know what metrics they are using?

What does it mean for a location when Fort Worth sends two individuals for a week to observe productivity and practices 👀 and nobody in management was aware they were coming. One guy for car and one for locomotive.

Someone said when they asked if in office mean 6 hours or 8 hours and the response was they are tracking people to be in office 8 hours .
Wtf!

This can’t be real, no one is staying exactly 8 hours a day in office

This isn’t real

Or is it!???

I’ve noticed that some people from the company continue to follow and monitor our LinkedIn profiles even after we were laid off and have moved on to new and better opportunities.

If you see that someone has landed a new role, a simple “congratulations” would be more appropriate than checking profiles, sharing posts internally, or gossiping about them.

For those who may not be aware, LinkedIn Premium allows users to see who is viewing their profile. It’s easy to notice repeated views. I could easily identify several individuals who have been checking my profile regularly.

Being laid off ultimately opened the door to better opportunities for many of us, and I’m grateful for where that journey has taken me. Sometimes what seems like a setback turns out to be the best thing that could happen.

Watch for more RAs in Consulting very soon. . .

https://www.businessinsider.com/consulting-management-ai-agents-future-ibm-2026-3

By: Lakshmi Varanasi
Mar 23, 2026, 4:01 AM CT

• IBM's consulting arm monitors the work of AI agents using a real-time dashboard.
• IBM says AI agents have sped up security investigations, cutting task time from 45 to a few minutes.
• IBM Consulting's revenue reached $21 billion in 2025, driven by demand for AI solutions.

At IBM's consulting arm, the future isn't a slide deck or a strategy memo — it's a live dashboard where humans monitor the work of AI agents in real time.

Earlier this month, Mohamad Ali, senior vice president of IBM Consulting, walked Business Insider through the dashboard that the company both uses internally and recently released to clients.

"Every hour I can see what's going on with all the humans associated with digital workers," and vice versa, he said. "That is the new consulting model going forward."

The dashboard is known internally as "Consulting Advantage." The company unveiled it in 2024 to help its own consultants build and manage teams of AI agents. This January, it unveiled "Enterprise Advantage," a similar version of the platform for clients that allows them to build and manage AI agents at scale.

In recent years, the firm has made itself the testing ground for building and deploying digital workers as it prepares clients for a future defined by AI. Ali said the firm has digital staff working side by side with humans on more than 150 client engagements.

Take the example of a typical security operations center, he said. When an alert comes in, a human investigator would normally spend about 45 minutes combing through logs to figure out what went wrong and what to do next. At IBM, he said, that process is increasingly handled by AI.

Digital workers first "generate an investigation plan." Then they execute it in real time. Multiple agents tackle different parts of the problem simultaneously, passing tasks back and forth, he said. Then they run a risk analysis and produce a report. The process now takes just a couple of minutes. The findings are then passed back to a human — with key actions highlighted — and the human verifies it.

In January alone, IBM used this approach to complete 52,000 investigations, Ali said.

IBM has evolved dramatically from its early days as a maker of mainframe computers into a key player in the AI bo-m. The company said its generative AI department was valued at $12.5 billion during its fourth-quarter earnings call.

Its consulting department, especially, has seen an uptick due to demand for generative AI and services that help clients implement it. Consulting revenue for 2025 came in at over $21 billion, up from about $20.7 billion in 2024.

IBM Consulting has been around for decades. The company acquired PwC's consulting arm in 2002. PwC would later rebuild its consulting business after a five-year noncompete clause expired.

IBM Consulting now employs about 150,000 employees and says its work overlaps with the Big Four and more technology-focused firms like Accenture.

"We don't do, like, what markets you should be in," Ali said. "We do strategy around 'how do you take your corporate strategy and implement it?'"

And right now, he said, there's a big question in corporate strategy: How do you prepare for a world where humans work alongside AI agents?

The last week or so, on the "site visits" in workday it said something about "ODW" and now it says "as we transtion to enterprise to the enterprise platform, site visit reporting will be retired." Uhhhh what?

IF i had to make a guess, it's something to do with maverick going live in May but I could be wrong... I'd love to think that this means they won't be tracking anymore but... I can't see that happening, unfortunately.

They are probably - for some reason - going to take the site visits visual away from us so we can't see how many days we've badged in, that way people can't "plan" ahead of time for days/weeks they want to not go in, or some bs like that.

I keep an excel spreadsheet with my days because the badge readers are sketchy and I make sure to stay for at least an hour or so, that way I have literal proof that I WAS in the office if push comes to shove... "it says you were only in 3 days last week, how come" pulls up VPN logs and shows that i was connected to a dell internal network 5 days. Luckily I have access to my own VPN logs :)

A simple splunk querey can and does pull up those who ACTUALLY CONNECTED to a Dell network, btw. I've done it myself.

But, wtf does this even mean lol? I don't think tracking is going away because I feel like there would be an official email stating that?

A new CEOWORLD magazine study surveyed 125,000 full-time U.S. employees. Most employees believe return-to-office mandates are "stealth layoffs." 72% suspect these policies aim to cut headcount without severance. Many workers engage in "coffee badging" or seek new jobs from the office. Strict monitoring correlates with lower trust, especially among Gen Z.

https://ceoworld.biz/2026/03/18/report-stealth-layoffs-and-coffee-badging-what-125000-u-s-employees-reveal-about-rto-mandates/

Hearing from certain people about reports tracking amount of time we are “active” and people with low numbers being called out? Any truth to this? Had anyone heard anything similar?

Leadership and the managing committee has been monitoring time spent in the restrooms and soon will be providing reporting in workday. Managers will be alerted if breaks exceed time deemed acceptable by our exceptional leaders. Two or more breaks a day will result in disciplinary actions.

Happy employee appreciation!

New global Hybrid and Remote Working Policy took effect from 6 March. Can someone please confirm how attendance is being monitored eg how long the monitoring window is and what data is used.

Anyone else have Skan VA in their system tray? Employee monitoring software.

I just heard from two different trusted sources that managers are receiving lists of employees who aren't on campus 4 days per week. Supposedly this is either already happening or will happen in all groups.

I know Chevron monitors activity. Obviously. But has anyone else received a new pop up to confirm that we understand and agree with our appropriate use policies? I’ve asked around and my peers haven’t received….

Does anyone know if we are collecting CAN logs from all the most recent cars we sold and storing them somewhere

I've heard of folks being let go for not staying the full day at the office and leaving early... supposedly HR is checking as of the past 6 months. Any truth to this? Has any managers heard of this?