Amazon gives managers a new way to spot who's barely coming into the office

"Amazon is equipping its managers withpowerful new metricsto monitor their reports with a dashboard that tracks not only whether employees show up to the office, but also how many hours they spend there, according to an internal document obtained by Business Insider. The move marks an escalation in the surveillance of white-collar workers at the e-commerce and cloud computing giant."

"The system flags three kinds of employees: "Low-Time Badgers," defined as employees whose weekly median time in the office is less than four hours per day, averaged over a rolling eight-week period; "Zero Badgers," who don't badge into any Amazon building during that span; and "Unassigned Building Badgers," who badge into a building other than the one they're assigned to over half the time."

Amazon equipped managers with a dashboard that measures both office attendance and hours spent on site. The dashboard began rolling out in December and refreshes daily at 5 p.m. PT, tracking metrics over a rolling eight-week period. It shows frequency of office visits, duration of stay, and work locations. The system identifies Low-Time Badgers (median office time <4 hours/day), Zero Badgers (no badge-ins during the period), and Unassigned Building Badgers (badge-ins at a different building over half the time). The dashboard supports enforcement of a five-day-a-week return-to-office mandate and follows prior actions against coffee badging.

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