What are the odds Penny installs a badge out keypad by June 1st? I hope everyone here is actively looking at the job market. Not every company feels the need to babysit their employees.
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@35v color me shocked one of tech rollouts didn't perform like it was supposed to. These bafoons think AI and 3rd world labor will get us to 5 trillion AUM in the next 3 yrs. Everyone laughs at you dipsh!ts, and giving us processed carbs and powdered eggs this week for "free" breakfast is not going to make it better. I predict massive network fail tomorrow.
Hahaha! I heard the demo of the IP tracking solution didn’t go as planned. Showed someone who had been working in the office for a few days hadn’t been onsite in over two weeks.
There are technology hurdles that weren’t resolved a few months ago.
And reporting…I’ve heard August. So nothing will be reliable until then….
Don’t people just use their watch with a second hand to keep active? What is going on?! Can they see a difference? I need to walk/ see sunshine/ take a break from time to time.
@a3 re your words: “ You will be tracked regardless of badging. THEY know where you are.”
THIS IS CORRECT. THEY KNOW. Software was installed on your computers. VPN. They know if you are on home office Internet or not. Your home. A hotel in Florida. Or somewhere you’re not supposed to be as an HBA. They have keystrokes added to the systems.
This is not a trusting ELT.
Be prepared.
Find a new job.
That's more of a security reason than big brother, but a little bit of both.
It would allow them to see who hasn't badged out and could still be in the building. Shocked this hasn't been done until 2026.
Also, they are constantly tracking IP addresses so don't think badges are the end all be all.
@at Dang, I haven't seen remote roles opened up since last year. They will pull a bait and switch though just like they did for remote hires during covid. They will hire these people on and then next year demand they relocate to st louis or tempe (per the recent survey). These people in charge have lost their marbles.
@OP They most likely will track all laptop and desktop activity through the laptop management software. It can track when you are active and when you are dormant.
When leadership has nothing inspirational to do or say, they spend their time on controlling where and when associates work. Least inspirational leadership team ever.
@an ...going to? Already is. Multiple positions open in my department that they can't get applicants for due to the atrociously low pay (for the licenses we're required to carry) and chatter in the industry about what it's like working in the home office. Because of this, they've opened the roles back up to remote hiring.
You can only hand down so many mandates and refuse to acknowledge that our pay su-ks for so long, and its starting to seem that the consequences of ELTs bone-headed decisions are already starting to make themselves known.
Frankly, while I don't wish ill on any of the rank & file, I hope that everything that PP/DD/et al have done in the past 36 months crumbles to pieces in front of them.
@a8 Sounds like a great use of company resources and strategy for a firm who claims we need think into the future. Nothing says "family" like treating your associates like they are prisoners and applying 1980s wall street style management & culture. Rule with an iron fist is going to turn this place into a toxic sh/thole that nobody in st louis will want to go near.
@a9 100% correct. Then you have to deal with non stop layoff cycles because DC "wants the numbers bigger!" while we are being told it is record breaking year. What kind of company does layoffs and aggresivw outsourcing to india while claiming to be having the best year ever and setting records. Something is deeply wrong here.
They have our laptops already installed with location tracking. There is some dork somewhere in each area who knows days your badge has been swiped and how long you were logged into that location. You also have busy body GPs who like to walk around and count heads. They then narc out to your DL and TL about john and jane doe not being in a cube enough. Imagine going home and your kids asked what you did at work today? "Well kids, I don't do any meaningful work, everyone hates me because Im a tone deaf sociopath, oh and I walk around making sure there are bodies in the cubes. I think Im important though."
Mandating office attendance and tracking metrics over outcomes is a regression in leadership. Instead of fostering innovation, these 'command and control' tactics create a toxic environment that stifles morale. We are applying 20th-century solutions to a 21st-century workforce. If we don’t evolve our leadership practices to reflect modern standards of autonomy, we will simply become a training ground for competitors who actually value results over badges
I would bet they can do it simply from where your laptop/computer is. Then provide last known location/activity/time reports to leaders. If you show too many outliers (last on-campus activity 3pm, 2pm, 4pm, 1pm, 2pm the week of X, you'll get flagged and they'll expect already overburdened leaders to address it.
You will be tracked regardless of badging. THEY know where you are.