To see if we’re actually coming into office. Heard from around the office here but no one can actually confirm lol.
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I know for a fact, at least in Palm Bay Florida they monitor coming in. They do not have a way of monitoring leaving or where you are during the day. They will issue a one way pages if you’re important enough.
Years ago, It was mandated if you were 15 minutes late or more three times in a month you would be put on a personal improvement plan, and if it continued then terminated.
A department manager, let’s call him Pat thought it would be a good idea to distribute to his department the report showing everyone who’s been late for the month, as an embarrassment tactic, unfortunately for him tab 3 showed the C suit personnel who all were late most days, this earned Pat a three day unpaid vacation. Most in the department laughed so hard they were in tears.
Badges are only tracked for timekeeping purposes. That is, when coming and leaving work at the Clifton location.
If you ask the guard at the entrance he's got no clue where you are in the middle of the day. Swiping to a lab is a security measurement just to get in/out. Can they implement it and see where you really are? Sure they would be able to do it, but "Who's going to pay for it?" Same story at Clifton.
If someone from your family is looking urgently for you and happens that you're in a lab somewhere, nobody is going to be able to find you using currently existing technology (badge swiping). I know because it happened to me the years ago.
The maximum possibly done is to check whether your car is still parked.
Hope that clears it out for everyone.
Badge swipe time stamps have been used in Clifton for years. If the company wants you out, all they need is a few instances of inconsistent swiping to make a case for dismissal. The introduction of hourglass makes it easier still. This data is going to be used for the next round of reductions.
The day begins in Clifton with swiping your way through the gate into the facility and ends when you swipe the same gate to get out. Unless you park off site and walk in you're comings and goings are recorded. You also swipe to get into the building and out again. And, of course any lab that you enter has an additional swipe. Your movements can be tracked all day. Including whenever you leave the facility for lunch and come back.
One guy was suspected of mischarging... the classic come in late, leave early. HR was able to pull the logs of the badge system to see when he arrived but I can't recall how they tracked him leaving... we didn't have to "badge out." But I think a lot of companies are using "innovative" ways these days to see if people are physically coming to work.
They don't need to look at badge swipes, only the daily vpn logins.
To answer the question, every badge swipe is absolutely getting tracked in a database somewhere. I assume everyone knows that, but perhaps some new or naive people don’t. The real question is whether or not they are actively monitoring the data.
We do have a historical precedence for that. Before Harris, L3 used badge tracing to "choose" people for RIF action. Going so far as to keep track of how long it took you to get from one building to another. Badge out here at 9:15 and you better be into another building in the time allotted to walk to that building. If not, where TF were you?
hmmm....i work for your competitor. Nobody is making us come back into the office. Oh I do love working here actually.