The fact that they have to resort to checking logs to determine who is coming into the office should be enough proof of how pointless working from the office is.
If you literally can’t tell without a literal in/out log, you can’t claim performance or communication as reasons for requiring it. You’re literally saying “we can only tell if we check the logs.”
It’s not about performance, it’s about control.
It’s not about control, it’s about billions of dollars having been invested in commercial real estate.
For some. For others, it’s the other.
For some, both.
But, they would save billions of dollars by selling it back. This is textbook sunken cost fallacy.
I’ve been saying CEOs should be making real estate donations to the cities theyve pillaged, for the expressed purpose of affordable housing/low income housing. Huge tax write-off. Turn this negative into a positive real easy.
It’s almost like these are the kind of decisions CEOs get paid 1000x more than I do to make.
Sunk cost fallacy.
Do what you want, but please stop posting jobs as remote unless you actually want to hire remote. I am applying for the posted remote job. I am open that I intend to work remote. Why the fuck am I getting an HR person on a phone screen telling me they really want people in the office??
Stop posting remote. You don’t want me and I don’t want you. We don’t need to talk!
Don’t resist. Leave. Tell employers that are hostile to remote workers that you can find work elsewhere.
Resist while you leave. Best of both worlds.
https://www.vergesense.com/ is one such company that we use at my work as well as badge data and logs for laptops connecting to corporate wifi. All of these data points can be extrapolated to determine if someone has been in office or not.
There’s a running joke of “well I got my one swipe in today, I’m going home” which seems to be common for every office I visit.
next up: office workers swipe in to the office for an hour a day
I swipe in 10am, leave 2pm. Twice a week. Commute time 1 hour each way, so 2 of my 6 hours are totally wasted.
Or one person swipes for his buddies.
From the logs, these guys are really in sync.
In school, when you sign the sign-in sheet with your handwriting, then with your other hand in order to cover for your buddy.
Keyme kiosks will not only copy keys, but can copy rfid badges. Tap your badge, pay your $20, and they will give you a cloned badge that 100% works with badge scanners.
Just some interesting information for anyone reading.
Hack the reader. Install a device that clocks you in and out automatically or remotely. There have been a few defcon talks on how insecure these systems are.
So show up once in a while and badge in 30 times or so. “I’ve been coming in all month, your badge reader must be broken if it’s saying it was all on the same day”. If they want to play games then let’s play some fucking games.
Let the paying for badge swipes begin. If I pay someone to swipe my badge in and out everyday the metrics will be skewed.
