Who in tech works on a clock?
Honestly I've never met anyone in my 20 years of career.
Do you use clock-in, clock-out systems to show presence in an office building? For what?
Genuinely curious.
Honestly I've never met anyone in my 20 years of career.
Do you use clock-in, clock-out systems to show presence in an office building? For what?
Genuinely curious.
How you do that differs, but there are companies that run clock-systems for that -- many of them are coupled to the access control systems of your office/factory, so when you use your ID card to enter the building, you automatically clock in. Others require you to maintain timesheets in one system or the other.
How reliable these systems reflect how much time you actually worked is up to debate, but as employer you get into serious trouble if you don't have them.
In the US and in the tech career field but outside of the tech industry (and maybe even inside it in places that aren’t paying top dollar) in places like California which have a higher-than-federal salary floor for wage/hour exemption in the field, even if nominally reimbursed on a salary basis, plenty of people at junior levels, because they are subject to wage/hour/overtime rules.
Probably also a lot of people in places that have stronger worker protections than the US (which covers, well, most of the developed world.)
This means overtime is always compensated either in pay or by taking days off and frankly I would not work any other way anymore in an employment situation (unless self employed)
It was annoying. I'd often be 'in the zone' at 5 and they felt the need to interrupt productive work. Not sure why. Eventually they gave me a key.
That said even if you’re not clocking in it’s common to want to work a full 8 hours or close to it.