Anyone know how they are monitoring this? I figure I can spend 3hrs driving in the morning and then start my day when I get home. Nobody from my team is there.
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So Dell knows who owns each device, laptop, desktop, mobile device. Your badge login/logout time is tracked as well as your mobile device and Teams status.
"Dell has no way to identify who owns the device that is in their facility."
Says who?
You pass through the badge reader along with all you phone, laptop, Bluetooth equipment.
Many/most people I know have the teams app on their phone so it even turns that into easy mode compared to having to make extra inferences.
"HEB and Walmart can track you through their stores to within a
5 foot of accuracy or better very quickly on entering the store."
Yes, they know there is a device, but HEB has no idea who you are unless you are signed in to their app and allow it to share your personal information. Dell has no way to identify who owns the device that is in their facility.
HEB and Walmart can track you through their stores to within a
5 foot of accuracy or better very quickly on entering the store.
I can literally do similar at my house.
Dell has it even easier. Go look at the Microsoft teams app on your phones and see if it has location access or
"Nearby devices". Guess what? All the conference rooms and other equipment in the building are looking for pings from teams.
In addition, common technology such as Cisco Meraki has the ability to track location based on employees phones and other wireless pings such as your smart watch or ring, and provides APIs that can be used to perform RTO monitoring even though they aren't marketing it for that purpose.
Tracking your IP is the tiniest bit of what they can do and not nearly as accurate as the rest of the options. Take this information with a little common sense and I think you know what the answer is...
Counting seats is happening
Wonder how many laptops will be going 'missing' now? LOL
"If they are using IP hits to track. Then leave your computer at work, turned on and logged in. Since your home is not an acceptable place to work anymore, why bring it home."
Believe what you want clown - this is from a very reputable source.
Yall are spreading some bs. They only track badge ins. They CAN do all that other stuff, but right now its not a metric so stfu
"Not sure if they are tracking time on that"
Not sure how it's tracked but U was told 4 hours on the office network is the minimum they are expecting.
If they are using IP hits to track. Then leave your computer at work, turned on and logged in. Since your home is not an acceptable place to work anymore, why bring it home.
They are ensuring your computer IP hits the Dell network once you badge in. Not sure if they are tracking time on that, but that's how the badge and leave folks will fk it up for everyone else unfortunately.
As long as your manager doesn’t care, I suspect you’ll be fine.
I didn't realize there was a name for this but I can't delete the post now.