Form a fucking union, fuck.
this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2023
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”Jassy added it wasn’t right for some employees to be in the office three days a week while others refuse to do so.”
Because this is a punishment, and more importantly, a vital means of maintaining control. So everyone needs to suffer equally, because we all know in the real world, and in business especially, fairness is the primary guiding philosophy.
Right? This statement acknowledges that going into the office is undesirable.
I feel like if you have to call attendance to make sure they're present, because you can't tell by their job performance, maybe you don't need them in the office?
Give one person the whole team's badges. Take turns being the person who goes in with all the badges.
Seattle resident here and ex-Amazon employee. Amazon has security staff (previously Securitas aka: Pinkertons) at all building badge entry points who specifically monitor for that kind of thing.
Also, it's hard for me to believe that Amazon was ever NOT monitoring, measuring and aggregating employee badge swipe data. That's far too useful a data point on individual employee behavior to leave it on the table. And there's zero obligation to either the public or Amazon's employees to disclose that they're doing it.
Also, it’s hard for me to believe that Amazon was ever NOT monitoring, measuring and aggregating employee badge swipe data.
Exactly. At the very least it's being logged, and has been since day one. A company as large as Amazon is going to have a full fledged reporting suite built into whatever solution they built around.
They’ve always logged. They just don’t have any type of reporting beyond “Yes, the badge was scanned on this day at this time”. And that isn’t even tied to any other system.
They run a report to create a spreadsheet that managers have to look over. Then they remove people from the spreadsheet who don’t have to come in. It goes back to, I assume, HR to handle after that.
A bunch of people are going in, scanning, riding the elevators up, screw around, ride the elevators down, badge out, and go home. That, so far, will keep them off the sheets.
Given how oppressive the employee monitoring is on the blue collar side, I'm surprised they skimped on the white collar side.
Agreed, I can't imagine this is information they weren't logging, just that now they have a reason to regularly review it. The amount of data that is logged because it can is astounding.
Occupancy sensors are a thing unfortunately
You assume it's only the digital swipe they are monitoring and not the physical swipe. Also, I'm sure they have multiple offices.
I say, don't care about it. Collectively, don't go.
I would have assumed they were already collecting this information.
Bonus - the funniest example of euphemistic corpspeak bullshit I’ve seen in a while:
“The information will help guide conversations as needed between employees and managers about coming into the office with their colleagues.”
If you work in an office tower in a major city, and the building is owned by a giant commercial real estate company, there is a very high chance your company has at least been offered weekly badge scan reports.