I noticed the 2026 in-office goal specified 3 full days a week. Did any else catch that? Has there been any clarification on what constitutes a “full” day and how managers will monitor and enforce that policy?
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@nd yes, well from what I understand ~6hrs is considered a 'full day' so you're all set. I'm not there a full 8hrs either but I abide the spirit of the expectation & never miss my number unless I had an accident (I messed-up my own tracking one month so I had 10). They're surprisingly flexible they just don't want you on the report, not sure what's so hard for people about it or why the resistance. It is what it is, I signed-up to follow rules that are not etched in stone. If I don't like it hard enough I can leave; the Titanic ain't turning around to come get me it's busy sinking which is a different topic. :-)
@km I take this same stance too, except that it's very difficult logistically for me to spend more than 5-6 hours in an office because of things in my personal life.
I go in, I don't make waves, I try to stay off anyone's radar.
I'm not a bootlicker at all but one thing I always try to do is make myself easy on my managers & their managers by doing all the little low hanging fruit stuff. RTO? Meet the target. Assigned training? I do it immediately within the week. PPP & clarity? Done on time before deadline. They're never chasing me for anything. When the lists come down - I've not been on it, even if I'm a pain in the butt periodically in other ways.
Not saying this works for everyone, but it seems to work for me. They actually do have to chase down a lot of people on the basic stuff & they really hate having to.
@d0 your reading comprehension needs some work because 3 days is not what this conversation is about.
Just comply with the three days, tracking the IP address is the next step and then we’ll see a lot of people complaining that they were laid off
@cv I can't even imagine the nightmare for managers if they put an hourly minimum on it.
I genuinely hope that if this happens that they're reasonable about it and are only using it to get people who swipe a badge and leave. Like you guys do you, whatever. I just don't want to lose my own flexibility because others are badging on weekends and doing other shady sh-t. It's those people that are ruining it for everyone else.
I've also seen official verbiage about how US Bank is flexible with in-office time. Traffic in big cities, priorities with children, etc. In my opinion it's intentional that senior leaders keep things vague regarding in-office time.
Edit the goal and take that language out along with face to face interaction. Doubt the clueless managers would even notice.
Tracking full days seems like a longstanding rumor that as of now isn't going to happen. Even if this year's office work goal mentions "full days," there is other documentation that has used that terminology before. Without badge out data, this is only possible by tracking login info. I'm doubtful U.S. Bank will efficiently do that scale, and doubtful they even want to do it at scale. It's more likely they'll monitor specific and low performing employees or that some managers and business lines will keep their attention toward people's whereabouts.
I am a manager, and while I do have a trusted source in infosec who deals with vetting software that would track things like this ("they" told me in November it is a fact it's coming in 2026), I have not been officially told by leadership it is available for me to track my team (I don't want to). I have not been told of any report. If it's supposed to be something managers can use, I have not been told about it (yet)
So it's either 1. not live yet, 2. live with a small pilot group, or 3. live but only a select few will know how to gather data
@a3 yes, there will be IP tracking if needed. I believe right now leaders are being asked to be more aware of their employees time spent in office
Coffee badging is well understood, but how will they be monitoring it? Employees only badge in, they don’t badge out. Are they doing IP tracking? And is that already being done and reported to mangers today?
Leaders will be spot checking for time spent in office and technology will be available (if truly warranted) to track where your log in is coming from. They’ve always been able to track your IP but can essentially now get that reporting if a leader deems an employee isn’t truthful on their location.
@OP yes essentially they are enforcing 6+ hours because far too many were coming in for 1 hour thinking they were abiding by RTO. It’s called coffee badging.