Not an AT&T employee, but I'm curious about your directive that you have to be in-office for a certain amount of hours before it counts as an in-office day.
How many hours do you have to be there?
How are they tracking this? Are you using badge-in and badge-out times?
Just curious, thanks.
There are couple of rumours I heard:
When you login the IP address tells where you are at. They can pull this report whenever they want.
“ and we aren’t alone with these inaccurate reports”
Ditto this, mine is messed up as well and I got called out for it by my boss. After that conversation I reached out to an attorney and was told they are treating us like non-exempt employees and to start tracking my time. When the time comes, lawsuit and they will have to pay me all that OT backpay. Not filing till they put me on a PIP, write me up, fire me or I find something else.
Our Gen Z employees do not think they have to work a minimum of 40 hours a week for some reason. Our company needs to address that ASAP.
It is working great here at T. They track badge swipes as well as LAN connectivity versus logging in from home. They are also tracking idle time on our PCs.
Somebody said the cameras have been updated and they're using facial recognition. The problem with that is many people have cr-ppy badge pictures that are ancient. You'll know if they're going to start doing facial recognition if everybody has to get a new picture for their badge all of a sudden
“ This is not true for all orgs and groups. Some require 7+ hours and are scrutinizing the reports.”
Those reports don’t accurately capture time in office. I swipe in every day at 8:30 yet me last Desktop presence routinely occurs around 3:40p despite the fact I don’t leave til 5pm…I have one guy sitting next to me who report indicates he’s never connected to the LAN despite doing so every day… and we aren’t alone with these inaccurate reports
“ Security cameras have been upgraded to use facial recognition. A picture of you is taken when you badge in and used throughout the day to track you.”
Nonsense , very few T offices have security cameras…
“ So 5 days, 6 hours in the building. Hit those marks and your off the naughty list”
This is not true for all orgs and groups. Some require 7+ hours and are scrutinizing the reports.
Security cameras have been upgraded to use facial recognition. A picture of you is taken when you badge in and used throughout the day to track you.
" The only way anyone knows how long you are there is co-workers & boss visual.
Someone is monitoring key strokes however. "
1000% incorrect.
Badge Swipes, lan time and whatever other metrics Forcepoint and the other Raytheon projects.. Most Likely HR has a group that consolidates these reports and passes them up at an aggregate level to sr. management, or just gives them a link dashboard and then it's HR's responsibility to inform your manager of any employees that are complying, stay too long on that dashboard.. and you;ll be sent packing.
Badge swipes as well as access to LAN and on premise wifi is accounted for. Further actual time spent on the LAN or WiFi in the office is checked to ensure employees are generally in the office 6 hours a day on average. So 5 days, 6 hours in the building. Hit those marks and your off the naughty list
Everyone who was laid odd in December should call in sick.
Regardless of employer, and according to the Fair Labor Standards Act: A salaried employee is paid a set amount of money on a regular basis. Depending on “exempt” or “non-exempt” status, salaried employees may or may not be entitled to overtime or a minimum wage. As an example for exempt salaried employees, their work schedule is determined by the job responsibilities and the company's expectations regarding their availability, as they are not required to track hours worked and are paid a set salary regardless of the number of hours put in. An employer may set core work hours or require employees to be available during specific times for team collaboration. The need to collaborate with colleagues may determine when and where an exempt employee works.
Hourly employees are just that, paid hourly, and work when and where as scheduled by the employer.
There is nothing in the law that references an employee's personal life circumstances, such as work-life balance, family care, commute, etc.
"At Will" is a term often used meaning when an employee accepts a job with a company that practices at will employment, this means that the employer can fire the employee at any time and for any reason – or for no reason at all. Likewise, an employee can leave their employer at anytime.
With all the RTO complaints and venting on this site (and others), employees have limited legal rights regarding return-to-office mandates unless they have an ADA approved agreement. Since most employees are considered "at will" meaning employers can require them to return to the office without legal recourse.
Hope this helps.
there's about a thousand threads on this, go read them
You badge in and walk out.
The only way anyone knows how long you are there is co-workers & boss visual.
Someone is monitoring key strokes however.
We gotta be there 8 hours, 5 days per week
What kind of a world do we live in where you have to put in 40 hours a week.
Ask your supervisor
We gotta be there 8 hours, 5 days per week. RTO is no joke.