Most of us are required to be in office at least 8 hours a day. How exactly is time in office tracked?
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@gk some people (not all, but some) want to make sure they get credit for time actually worked and aren't trying to game anything. if this bothers anyone, they don't need to click on posts with titles like "How exactly is time in office tracked." if they click anyway, they might want to think about why they're doing that.
Why is everyone always so concerned about badging in and what time you login? How about the days when everyone was in five days a week. Do you wanna work or don’t you?! do you need a job? Stop complaining and just shut up and go to work.
My manager showed us: first badge in or network connection, whichever is first and last badge or network connection, whichever is last. You. Get flagged if you work less than 7 hours a day.
Come in by 8 and stay til 5 three days a week and you have nothing to worry about. Why make it more complicated unless youre just another slacker who is trying to game the system at the expense of everyone else. Keep messing around with it and theyll make everyone work 6a-6p and it'll be all your, and people like yous, fault.
@ac which ever is first, or last.
@bj I have seen the report, my manager shares it with me weekly, to show compliance. There are no time stamps, are no hrs. It says yes or no to 2 columns, 3 days a week and 8 hrs a day. Thats it. Using first activity to last activity,badge or network what ever is greater, with whatever wiggle room they allow. And there is currently wiggle room, more than you think.
@am hadn't heard that about weekend work not counting toward the 8-hour requirement. do weekend days still at least count toward the separate 3-days-in-office requirement?
I was told they show hours. I know people on a PIP for coffee badging basically. So the data is there. We are told 8 hours. If the reporting doesn’t show the manager immediately guess what……they will start showing it when they have to do another round of IM. They can report retroactively like they did with in office days in Q4. In their mind if you cant prioritize coming in the office 8 hours then technically you are not meeting the basic requirement for your job. No one is going to get a pass if they start looking.
most managers have access to the high level reporting, more senior leadership can dig into the details even more. If you search Teamworks you can find all the manager communications about what is tracked and how. also worth noting that weekends don't count towards hours in office and weekdays from midnight to 3a doesn't count.
As a fully remote employee, I know they track if I go on away status in teams.
Pro tip: just shaking the mouse doesn't always fix that. Teams is both unreliable and overly trusted by management, just like AI.
It tracks 2 things. badge swipe in & out and also log in/out on the network. Some locations don’t badge out so network log in is the first thing looked at.
does anyone know confidently if it’s first badge swipe for first network access?
First activity either badge swipe or network, and last activity, either next work or badge.
Currently the report does not show times only if you are good or not.
And there is wiggle room. How much not exactly sure, but it's definitely less than 8.
@OP they ping your laptop location and if you swipe a badge they track each time you swipe and length in time
From first badge in time to last detected connection to corporate network