Posted on 09/15/2024 8:45:45 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Do you swipe in to your office building to meet your in-person mandate, but leave as soon as possible? There’s a word for your covert strategy: “coffee badging.”
It is where you show up to the office long enough for a coffee or a meeting expressly to fulfill in-office mandates — while primarily continuing to work from home whenever you can.
This new workplace lingo was popularized by videoconferencing company Owl Labs. The company defined it as “showing face at the office and then leaving.” In its 2023 report of 2,000 full-time U.S. workers, 58% of hybrid employees said they were “coffee badging,” with an additional 8% saying they were interested in trying it out.
And as hybrid arrangements have become a more permanent feature of office life, coffee badging is still here to stay. In a more recent June LinkedIn news poll of 1,568 people, 19% of LinkedIn users said they were still “coffee badging” into work.
Amanda, a Chicago-based IT project manager for a health insurance company, is one of them. Her company has a hybrid policy, and Amanda ― who asked to keep her last name private for her job ― said managers are open with employees that badge swipes are being tracked for “badge reports,” which calculate the percentage of people in office per week or month.
She has not had a conversation about her own attendance record, but knowing that her badge swipes could potentially result in a performance issue has made her diligent about commuting to the office because she does not “want to have that conversation come up at all.”
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I agree.
At least it disburses rush hours.
Meant “disperses.” My apolgies to the forum.
The silicon chip and all its tele communication applications have made the central business district and huge office towers obsolete and economically non viable. Mandates cannot reverse logical trends. The technology is only going to evolve, improve and accelerate the trend. Big cities are becoming concentrated centers of poor, non productive people with some spot exceptions. The productive people who work or live in those spots are at risk.
We have a ridiculous word or term for everything nowadays that can be easily described in common terms where you don’t have to learn cultural jargon.
Correct, it was going that way prior to Wuhan...the Szechuan Sniffles only accelerated it.
So, how much telecommuting has brought down the levels of CO/greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere...it has to be substantial.
As long as the coffee at work is free, I’d do it.
Very sound logic. I tend to concur.
And if said employee is at home streaming cat videos on his company laptop and/or company intranet then the company knows darn good and well what he’s doing and can easily find out that you weren’t doing it at work.
Yes, it would be, especially when otherwise sitting dead still in traffic. With all the extra people the Democrats are adding, there would be a substantial need for additional road construction as well.
“Mandates cannot reverse logical trends.”
When the last stupid bosses retire or die the days of the commute to urban wastelands will be over.
Some businesses pay people to perform tasks.
Other businesses pay people to show up at specific locations and pretend they are performing tasks.
Work at home is great for employees, great for their families and great for the company.
One of the main reasons I liked to leave early was just this.
If I could get on the road before 4:00 PM, I could get home in 45 minutes, vice two hours at 5:00PM.
All I know is I don’t waste 3 hours commuting back and forth to the office every day. I actually work those 3 hours.
Yup—before I retired any time I commuted to the office it was torture.
There was zero benefit to me, my out of state boss or the organization.
It was torture for the sake of torture.
The place you work will require you to do stuff you would rather not for money. This is the agreement.
Keep on acting like a toddler and they will find someone with a more grown up mindset.
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