How are you all maintaining 8 hrs in office ?
Staying 6 to 7 hrs is easily manageable to stay in office.
With early meetings, and again need to login at night to coordinate with offshore, maintaining 8 hrs is stretch.
Is it that mandatory to maintain 8 hrs or 6 to 7 hrs is acceptable?
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I'm doing 8-ish hours no problem. But I don't have odd hours that I have to be on. I decline anything that's earlier than 7-7:30. And for those I make it a priority to get in the office. Remember, exempt doesn't mean just 8 hours-- so working 8+ with 8 in the office shouldn't be a surprise. I'm taking the malicious compliance approach. Not doing early meetings before MY working hours. Somebody schedules a 6am meeting? You can su-k it unless I'm working remote and I'm willing to take the meeting. Thankfully my boss is on board with that. Somebody in the organization was taking back-to-back meetings from early on and wasn't getting into the office until late morning. So they got flagged.
What's stupid is we have to keep an eye on when we badge into the building and make sure we're close to or over 8 hours when we leave.
If the company treating you like an hourly employee upsets you just remember its the fault of the people on this thread (and thousands of others just like them) who proudly boast about doing as little as possible at work that has caused your current reality. If you were personally paying them to waste time by taking long lunches, hitting the gym, etc during office hours you'd be reacting the same way (or worse).
Put boundaries on your schedule for in-office days, and start declining the early AM and late evening meeting requests. If you catch some friction, blame the bosses for taking away flexibility. The indians will bi--h and moan about not being able to get you at 6 am, but there's really nothing they can do about it.
Block your schedule for lunch. With lunch and coffee breaks 8 hours is really like 6-6.5 hours in reality. If you work at a location that has a gym, consider joining it.
If you have a slow day, load up town hall replays and pluralsight training and then tune out on your phone.
Also, if you have an office near your home, you can go once a week without triggering the "must be at assigned office >50% of the time" thing. I'm assigned to an office 45 minutes away but go to an office 5 minutes away once in awhile, so I can go home for lunch and let my dogs out.
The report tracks hours and anyone doing less than 6 hours is getting talked to.
@gj hours tracking report is a separate report from days in office
the only people who have access to the hours report are OC+1, HR and select delegates of OC+1.
Days in office report is available to anyone in a 'manager' job family.
they are talking about a broader rollout in the coming months but nothing firm yet
@OP I am only going to assume that right now hour tracking is for contractors or non expect or where hours are tracked. I saw the dashboard also. No hours however maybe for exempt and non customer facing is will be a 2026 goal. It is not now
I have seen my report and there is no option for seeing hours at all. Only building badge
@ep agree. I haven't punched a time clock since part time work to get thru grad school. it's just ridiculous
oh my, how pathetic a company must to track hours employees work...this titanic has already hit the iceberg
@dh. There are a lot of posters on here who pass along hearsay about what’s on the report and most of them don’t say they’ve seen it directly. They say “my boss told me but their boss told them” or “I heard from someone” or something along those lines.
very few have actually seen it since access is highly restricted/limited. I haven’t seen that many posts saying “I have access” or “I’ve seen the report”.
@dj I’ll make a spreadsheet that tracks your dog’s bowel movements also
Within our organization, we were told, "7 to 8 hours" so I created a spreadsheet that'll calculate the time I need to leave bldg with consideration of time I head home for lunch to take my dogs out to $#!+ (about 1.25 hours).
In about 5:20ish AM, out by 2:30 PM. Easy Peasy
@d0 everyone who has supposedly seen this report says it contains something different. It’s very reassuring - that the site is mostly misinformation
@b9
Not alone will remember this. Haha.
right now the reporting shows two tranches: average <5 hrs, and 5-7 hrs
The pressure has been to clean up the <5 cohort.
I suspect after the <5 gets cleaned up, then attention will turn to the 5-7 cohort.
I assume eventually it will show day by day and actual hours, but right now it's just a 4 week moving average
Each thread contains a title, which should be a pretty good indication of what the postings will be about. Use this as a guide.
If a particular title doesn't seem interesting to you, you are totally free to scroll past, toward more relevant items.
None of this is going to be on a test any time soon.
Why has the LAYOFF site become a sounding board for in office requirements? Many of us don't have that option thanks to location strategy so we come here for layoff updates, not day to day responsibility requirements.
decline the early morning meetings and refuse to deal with stuff after hours. while the 8 hours mandate worked fine for many that have steady 9-5 work, there are also many exempt employees who require flexibility because of various timezones they have to work around. if their management isn't willing to provide flexibility then don't give them any.
@c3 This is the way.
Coffee badging was good - double coffee badging is 2x the coffee.
Go to the gym, take a long lunch. Then go back and work until the 8 hours are up. I see it like taking a mini vacation every day for excercise and sauna at the gym, yoga etc
Easy-
Arrive at 6:30 -
Leave at 2:30
We've been told as recently as yesterday, if you cant stay in office 8 hours, don't go in because it hurts your average. If you go in for a meeting for example, that will ki-l your average. It will trigger the report. Yes, im sure you can explain it. But that's alot of work. I have seen people already written up for doing 6 hours. 8 hours in, is 8 hours in. Its calculated from first activity to last activity. If its a badge facility , it uses your first and last swipe. If its not, they are using laptop activity and ip location.
@bc I’m doing the same and haven’t heard anything yet. That doesn’t mean that sc--ws won’t continue to be tightened at some point in the future but I’ll be prepared to deal with that if it comes.
Still doing 6-7, as long as you aren’t below 5 you are good….per the manager only guidance
8 is great