Amazon enforces new office hours rule and targets 'coffee badging'

I haven’t ever been to a place that required badging to leave. So they’re using casino style surveillance to track you once you badge in I suppose.

>>Even so, at least one Amazon employee seems to have already found a way to circumvent the new attendance policy.

This person wrote in the Slack channel that they were able to badge in through one of the back rooms located in their local Whole Foods store (Whole Foods is an Amazon subsidiary). The door didn't unlock, this person added, but the badge-in did register as an attendance on Amazon's internal report.

"Could I badge into this door 3 days per week and save myself from having to commute to the office?" the person wrote in Slack.

The irony is that they are developing tools to allow people to work from literally anywhere. This is all about petty bureaucratic control and expensive office space.

See your doctor, get your ADA accommodation paperwork.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40941575

Did you read this article? Do you have a BI subscription?

It's interesting that the workers don't want to be victims of the surveillance tech they build. Hmm...