New 'coffee badging' job trend has some business leaders on high alert

Fox Business ^ | December 18, 2023 | Erica Lamberg

[yelostar]

Frank Weishaupt, CEO of Owl Labs in Boston, told FOX Business

Mr. Weishaupt shares a surname with a notable historical figure, Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Bavarian Illuminati (May 1, 1776).

Owl Labs is an interesting name for his business, as the Owl of Minerva was the Illuminati symbol chosen by Adam Weishaupt.

A skeptical, cynical person might say, "hidden in plain sight."

[usconservative]

Commuting to the office eliminates 3 hours of productivity daily for me. Here's what that means:

The time I'd otherwise be online and working before 9am is spent commuting. When I WFH I'm online working by 7:30am.

The time I'd be otherwise be online working after 5p is spent commuting back home.

It's 90 minutes each way. I'm forced to be in the office 3x / week. So when I'm asked why my productivity dropped I point to the fact that my employer made a conscious decision to have me return to office 3x/week eliminating 9 hours of productivity that they were getting from me prior to June of 2022, which is when they mandated RTO.

They *clearly* didn't think through the ramifications of their decision to mandate RTO for no other purpose, than mandating RTO.

Finally, YES, I've seen "coffee badgers" and it thoroughly pisses me off people do that. As much as I don't like the RTO mandate because people such as myself are as effective/moreso WFH as we are in the office, my employer does have the right to determine where I am required to work from. That they haven't thought through the consequences of their decision just makes me laugh. Seriously.

I'm financially well enough off that I'm retiring soon anyway.

[Dr. Sivana]

I think if this is going to be the new trend, there needs to be better ways to monitor daily productivity.

I work in IT, and am presently 90% in office, but have been 100% remote.

There is no great way to measure productivitu on most jobs like mine. You can gauge how much time is spent in online meetings, but that doesn't stop someone from attending a two hour meeting while playing Minecraft on a phone. (I do not do that)

Measuring number of tickets resolved is also inadequate. I could generate and resolve tickets at will. The important tickets often take the better part of a day. Requiring employees to account for every minute cuts into productivity, and is a fast way to lost the best employees.

It comes down to what the other members of the team describe, and whether the work gets done. It is best to make good hires of conscientious employees, and DEI quotas make that more difficult. Crappy contracting firms make it worse.

If a hiring manager tells a contracting company, I want an employee in Position A, to do B, but C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J are also nice, the contracting company will treat C-J on par with B, and you get fudged resumes or none at all after filters. My manager asked me to pick candidates from a pool of applicants as we needed to backfill a position to run a specific backup program. Out of the five candidates' resumes, only one even mentioned the software. It turns out the contracting company just asked for a backup position, and did not list the essential program that was needed on day one, but listed C-J. The fellow who had moderate exposure got hired on my recommendation, and he is working out great, but we just got lucky.

[bert]

Retiring doesn’t mean you need to cease working from home.

For health and well being, find something you have been doing that is salable and make a few bucks doing it. You have salable skills someone needs

[dfwgator]

That’s too bad. Before wokeism, innocent flirting in the workplace was fun and broke the monotony.

Drew Carey Show - This Is Sexual Harassment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlNq2Qaa4XY

[piasa]

Coffee Badgers don’t care

[Jan_Sobieski]

I saw that too! Very coincidental and strange indeed!

[ConservativeMind]

When I do go to the office, 99% of my meetings are online, because we have more than one location, across the country.

Being at the office, with the butt-high cubicle walls, in rooms that hold over 80 cubicles, is maddening. You hear everyone’s conversations, and so few are about work. I definitely catch up on what people are doing, outside of work, and get multiple opportunities to go walking with people and get coffee or other things.

I am reminded just how little anyone actually gets done, when I am at the office.

Consequently, I highly encourage going to the office, if you want to get nothing done.

[Fai Mao]

Doing the bare minimum at a job is still doing the job.

[MayflowerMadam]

“It’s also how many of us met our wives.”

Yep. I did. My husband, not my wife.

[Noumenon]

Toxic corporate culture has a lot to do with it. Especially if you’re an older (strike one) white (strike two) guy (strike three).

[grey_whiskers]

FReepmail.

[drSteve78]

Posted twice ( by accident, i have done so), so does that count as extra work? SARC

[V_TWIN]

I asked the mods to have one removed

[drSteve78]

Coffee Badgers don’t care.

Excellent 😊. Your work here is done today, you can take the rest of the day off.

[drSteve78]

No, no, no, it’s added volume 😎

[FlingWingFlyer]

It’s your friggin’ company. Fire their asses.

[Grampa Dave]

Anybody, who doesn’t want to escape rush hour traffic and all of its endless hassles is clinically insane.

Or they hate their family and homelife!