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Comment by eschneider | Hacker News Reader

Remember, your BADGE has to go to the office, not YOU.

Great way to end up extremely fired and potentially in serious legal trouble.

Just take a badge reader back with you and badge in at home

Badge abuse is a huge security issue in general. But hey, if want to get terminated from Amazon for cause, sure, lend your badge to a co-worker.

You don't have to lend out your badge for it to 'check in' without you. This is a software problem with many solutions.

I can't imagine that there's not some vuln is these systems that might make a solution easier

They can track when you get in, but not when you leave ;)

Badging in a Service will become a thing, with all the attendant problems.

Let's be real your work PC gives them all the tracking capabilities they need.

Badges aren't important if you have a PC to yourself.

(And you don't need to install spyware to accomplish this, the network can trivially be setup to track the data)

They do in fact track when we leave, we need to badge in and badge out.

Yes they can. You have to badge out of offices as well.

Citation: I currently work at Amazon.

Is that relatively new? I never had to badge out during my 2012-2017 tenure.

Yeah. Sometime around 2021 I believe. I’ve been here since 2012.

You wish? They have been tracking checkout since 2020. If you are in the office for only a couple hours a day, it doesn’t count as RTO, I was told.