Just heard from someone who said their manager told him that starting next month, VPNs will be checked. No more badging in and going home. Now, they will be able to tell where we are working from.
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I have access to senior executive information, and there has been no communication whatsoever, whether through manager only portal HR information and/or direct email that this process is being rolled out. When the badge swipe work place view was being introduced, there was a whole big ongoing communication which included justification and talking points for leaders to use to convince team why this spying was a good thing, a detailed walk through of the badge swipe tool view, and a roll out timeline. Maybe someone's managed said this is happening to keep his or her team on their toes. Or, maybe a single report was run to gauge just how many employees are swiping but not using office. My sense is HPe has a lot more to focus on now such as how to sell the company and keep that pesky press from finding out. I find it alarming HPE hasn't responded to all of the sale rumors.
I figure: if you are here watching me "clock-in/log-on" then please be sure to be here to watch me "clock-out/logout" as well.
I am a former EDS ENGINEER, both oriented & trained thru the Ross Perot post-college graduate training program - none better - we bleed EDS blue.
It is insulting to our EDS culture & values.
There is a difference and criteria between EDS & HP qualifications which should be recognized and not discarded...EDS Engineer training is a higher bar to be recognized & valued...
I'm not worried until my manager says I'm showing up on a report. Then I'll say "sorry" and traipse down to the empty office. But my work comes first. If I need to start at O-dark-30 a.m., it'll be from home and I'll spend the next 16 hours doing quality work without the traditional holdups, rituals, and distractions involved with just getting to a desk and getting under way. If that's not good enough, and the preference is for barely eight hours of enough to get by, something ain't right.
It is happening already. They have a list of workers and their login stats. Another mechanism to let employees go with cause or layoff. Move on while you can.
Won't happen. That would be a lot of ddat to collect and manage. I once worked for a company where a group President had IT do this for a month - capture the data - quietly, just to catch people not logging in at a company site. It required so much resource to manage that single month, she was fired. Now, I could see HPE at Meg request doing this for a single month to catch people. She must be aware of all the swiping and working from home and I could imagine this pissing her off... how dare tney..ust be sure to log in from work before you head out. The report will just show when there is the absence of an HPE IP address for any given date.
There isn't enough manpower to manage that kind of reporting and data.
If you can move my job to India, I can sure as hell work from home. Can't wait for the WFR to hit.
What do we say to customers that ask how HPE can claim to be a leader in workplace mobility solutions when we are implementing this 'back to the office' policy for our own staff?
What data are they hoping to capture? I go into the office everyday. I also work from home everyday. After the kids are asleep I routinely work until 10pm. If we aren't allowed to work the extra unpaid overtime from home the job isn't going to get done. If that is their plan they will be sorry fast ...
This makes me think of the situation where a wife/husband/bf/gf always accuses their partner of cheating... because they are cheating themselves. Upper management has no morals, no ethics, and they believe, as "betters", that their employees are worse than they are. So here we are, upper management playing these stupid games, forcing lower management to put their teams under the microscope and treat them like children.
Honestly, I don't understand why anybody would want to hire in at HP. No job security, no raises, no bonuses, called into "all employee meetings" so Meg can hoot about how awesome her cronies are at replacing employees in G7 nations with third world fodder... and now you have to wonder if Meg herself isn't watching you with the building's security cameras, disapprovingly, because you spent 5 minutes getting coffee.
Can't say I understand why people would do that game. Either go into the office or vpn in. If Meg doesn't like one's choice, so be it.
What a joke. How can anyone take the CEO of a tech company that doesn't allow employees to work from home seriously?
Will they only be checking ONDO employees still?