What are your thoughts on "Coffee badging"... It's is an 'at work' trend where employees show up to the office for a short time (just to get credit for being present that day), and then they leave to work remotely for the rest of the day...
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https://www.cnbc.com/video/2024/12/18/coffee-badging-a-workplace-trend-thats-annoying-employers.html?
As long as they continue the town hall with free tacos were good.
No coffee badging for me but I like to crop dust the VP that sits on 2nd floor RR3 that enjoys micro watching his direct reports.
Norm for the win!
"So, I guess 5 days a week means 9 to 6 work sharp AND no more late evening/early morning calls and no work during weekends, right?"
Half the people I know don't even work close to that
I've never "coffee badges" but I have "prairie dogged" ..
close by, so sure do
If I lead a team I would only care about results. These are silly games with mgmt on a power trip to control us into quitting. Quit being cheap as--s and pay up! Severance! Or ki-l severance altogether and watch how fast people leave and you can’t hire another single skilled tech worker. Maybe another army of Indian contractors with fake resumes and interviews taken by others who are never online because they work 8 contracting jobs will save the company. You might get one good quarter if you’re lucky.
So, I guess 5 days a week means 9 to 6 work sharp AND no more late evening/early morning calls and no work during weekends, right?
"Dell in their wisdom has since cancelled the leases on just about all the office space "
that's by design. To save on monies. And not a good outlook on the future if office space/land is contracting.
Like others have said, my work gets done and the rest of my team is remote. No reason to sit in office. I go in the morning and am gone in less than a minute. Get my 29 badge ins a quarter. Sitting around won't make me work any better and it offsets the poor salary opportunity we have here. Wish we could opt back to being remote fully after we move teams internally.
"Reporting is already available in Tableau and PowerBI for network access "
over complication. Just have people badge out.
its funny, I actually got in trouble back in 2021 for going into the office to print something. This was during covid and we were told to work from home. Apparently my badge triggered an alarm, I got an email from Bill Scannel and a call from my manager about going in. Of course Dell in their wisdom has since cancelled the leases on just about all the office space they had in my area, saving a dime.
Reporting is already available in Tableau and PowerBI for network access with VPN vs Dell Direct Network. Not being used as of yet, but the potential is there to use the data in performance conversations.
thanks for the question HR
RTO. 5 days, sallys.
Since I live 40 minutes away from where I worked before going fully remote, coffee badging is rediculous. If I'm there I might as well work.
"It's a basic employer/employee relationship. Employer sets the employment guidelines, employee agrees to follow the guidelines."
In many cases employee was hired as a remote. Dell reneged on that agreement.
Do you see a problem with that?
And if employer is loose with its ethics and dealings; the employee should do likewise.
To the @$$clown who replied "To the id--t who said...":
The id--t is quite correct.
It's a basic employer/employee relationship. Employer sets the employment guidelines, employee agrees to follow the guidelines. Employer provides employee with a paycheck, insurance, 401k and all that cool stuff. Employee functions perfectly well in society.
IF employer sets the employment guidelines, employee DOES NOT follow the guidelines. Employer WILL NO LONGER provide employee with a paycheck, insurance, 401k and all that cool stuff. Employee now DOES NOT function very well in society and has no employer and none of that other employer provided cool stuff.
Norm: Or you could just show up for work like a normal, functioning adult.
If everyone at Dell was thinking like Norm DELL would have been the top HW company in the world. Be more like Norm.
I love them.
The people who are here the whole time voluntarily are usually the hardest people to be around because they treat this job like a social thing, and they need to fu-k all the way off and out of people’s business
Busted...
why do you care what other people are doing?
my my look at the azzhole shamers on this thread
I'm a former VMW employee now working in the salt mine at Broadcom. Like Dell, we have been mandated 100% RTO. By sheer d-mb luck, there is a BC office in my town about 5 miles from my house. It's a sh---y office, that is jam-packed with few open desks. My regular routine is to drive to the office first-thing in the AM, badge in, work for a bit, then depending on my call schedule head home by mid-day to finish out my day.
In my job, I do not interact with a single other BC employee based in my local office, so there is zero impact to my ability to remain productive and get my work done. But you have no choice but to play this silly game of achieving perfect attendance. It's like 2nd grade all over again, without recess of the occasional birthday parties.
I feel terrible for the hundreds of remote employees who do not live driving distance to their nearest BC office, or worse - those who do, but are not allowed to be based there because that BC office is already deemed "full to capacity".
our group has a few of those. Hope they're the first to be let go when the time comes.
But they are... just not for the whole day. Remember;
"Work is something you do, an outcome, not a place or a time. "
"If you are counting on forced hours spent in a traditional office to create collaboration and provide a feeling of belonging you are doing it wrong."
Or you could just show up for work like a normal, functioning adult.
As long as the work is getting done and your days in are getting logged. Play the game.
Good. Really should not care what management think. They don't care about us so we shouldn't give a cr@p about them. If coffee badging keeps someone off a list then great.
Whats the issue?
Why should we care about Dell?