It finally happened today: my supervisor told me I was on “the list” for not swiping my badge enough.
I pointed out the irony that we’re raising product prices because of higher oil costs, yet somehow there’s never any corresponding increase in cost-of-living adjustments for us peons.
@OP they are 100% tracking badges and data to see who is coming in, how long they are staying etc. they also have the ability to monitor where you are working from. If you need the job do the job, if you can leave you should because it will get worse. It’s not a matter of if - it is actively happening.
The ask is Workday documentation even if it is in the past. SVP and and VP don’t care, then HR does and pushes low level management- everyone on different pages. So not well organized- if you get - mass wrongful termination representation coming. Fight back!
@16a you could have just stopped at "3M is not analyzing."
The science is clear that WFH boosts both employee satisfaction AND productivity.
But we're rolling it back anyway, because Bill Brown wants the employees to be unhappy and quit. And since not enough people quit when they announced RTO they need to up the ante and make it even more unpleasant.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
@16a If 3M isn't monitoring days in office, why are they monitoring badge swipes? I was also told that I'm on a list for not going into the office enough. I'm not sure what exactly the consequences are, but I'm assuming they want higher attrition and a short-listed excuse to lay off people.
@16a You are so right about the poor leadership at 3M. I think 3M gives a course on gas lighting to its senior managers. These leaders will do anything to survive, including destroying those they feel threatened by, especially if that person is a better leader.
@11p 3M is not analyzing days in office due to liability of potential discrimination of those in office vs allowed remote. Those attempting to gaslight in these comments are discrentle Mgrs, Ldr’s, VP’s and SVP creating fear. 3M is known to have the worst leadership and they survive by creating fear to displace their insecurities. They’ll retire in 3-5 yrs and the contractors they’ve hired will be gone too!
@vv Not hours, if your badging in averages 2.5 days per week. So far/to my knowledge, they are not tracking hours.
@110 my entire management chain lives out of state. When they're forced to move back to MN, I'll take this "policy" seriously.
Time for remote workers to return to MN!
Supervisors better be aware if they have a higher percentage of badge "violators" that they too will end up on the zhit list.
This company's culture is beyond malignant. Badge checks are a classic sign of desperation.
The company's culture was badly damaged by the GE guy in the early 2000s. But even that wasn't as bad as this disgrace.
@vv Not yet. My understanding is that you need to badge in 4+ days. We haven't got to the point, yet where BB is going to as for more detailed analysis of actually daily time in office. They are still quietly letting people go. It is probably not a matter of "if", but "when".
@pj so they're tracking hours badged in and then calculating it to a per week average over a quarter? Not just looking at if you badged in four days per week?
There are plenty of managers on that failure to badge in list.
As a people manager, we found out you need to average 2.5 days/week to stay off the naughty list. This average includes estimates for sick days and vacation. With our wonderful Work Day solution, they aren't even able to get at the full picture, so they estimate. If you get "caught", they don't have the details to share, it's you're simply on the list or you aren't. FYI they measure each quarter.
"Oh you don't have to worry about that sweetheart. It'll all be over soon."
Gladys Foster (granny) scene from Legion (2010) movie.
Best option is turn in your badge and run. Dont ever look back,
IT Employee
Safety and quality are always the first to get cut.
@dm
There may be around 8000 pension eligible employees still around in 3M. They want to get rid of all of them by 2028 when pension stops
We now have SVPs in Legal spending time monitoring attorneys and other professionals to make sure they are badging in enough. It is so stupid the only way to explain this behavior is that they want everyone to quit.
Leadership has made its contempt unmistakable: loyalty is worthless. Long-time 3Mers are passed over for selective promotions and insulting sub-3% raises, while outsiders are parachuted into every leadership role. The CEO’s disdain for tenure is blatant.
Yet EHS is slashed to a skeleton crew — right as executives preach that “safety is our #1 priority.”
This isn’t culture. It’s contempt. And it’s ki-ling what’s left of trust
Just like the good old days, when presence was valued more than productivity.
Ill scan people in hundred a month per badge
Haha, give it a few weeks and someone will over complicate the process create VP approval add governance and create a playbook no one understands. There will be multiple ways to get reporting that all show different results, it’s a storm in a t-cup as usual.
While I totally agree raises have been garbage lately, and promotions only happen for...people of "protected classes"....at least you office people got to save thousands for years while work from home was a thing. Technical people had no work from home option, and got not extra pay for commuting, or the hazards of being exposed to covid.
How is that going to work? The logs are date-coded. You need to do it each day.
Down 30 bucks from its peak? Ha. 3M used to be about 260 a few years ago.
Just scan in and out for a week’s worth…all on Monday morning - like measuring anything, 3M is probably bad at it. Someone in management will probably take credit for increased production or something
@OP Nothing says “innovation” like measuring employee value by how often a plastic badge touches a scanner.
Sounds like BB is getting very frustrated that only a few people have quit when forced RTO. And this badge program check is something the Stasi would be proud of. Your boss is probably being warned they could lose their job if YOU don't comply.
Meanwhile, the stock is down 30 bucks from its peak. Growth is meager. And BB fixation on the stock price and stock price only is going over as well with Wall Street and the demoralized 3Mers as a juicy SBD in a crowded elevator at the Center.
Badge in and get some coffee and popcorn. Quiet quitting is easy enough. Sorry BB, you may make 20 million for using a machete on what's left of this once great company, but you can't stop the masses from QQ.