In Defense Of 'Coffee Badging,' The Controversial New Office Trend

MSN.com ^ | September 15, 2024 | Monica Torres

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Not sure how coffee badging accomplishes anything for a company or its workers. Many people resent return-to-office mandates, including me, but office time can be useful, and it seems silly to me to just commute in, have coffee, turn around and go back home. If you make the effort to come into the office in the first place, might as well stay and work the full 8. JMO.

[No name given]

I agree.

[Carry_Okie]

At least it disburses rush hours.

[Carry_Okie]

Meant “disperses.” My apolgies to the forum.

[allendale]

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.

[frogjerk]

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.

[frogjerk]

Correct, it was going that way prior to Wuhan...the Szechuan Sniffles only accelerated it.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

If the employer pays someone to be in the office 8 hours per day, then that
employee is obligated to be in the office 8 hours per day. It's not rocket science.

[frogjerk]

So, how much telecommuting has brought down the levels of CO/greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere...it has to be substantial.

[Ge0ffrey]

As long as the coffee at work is free, I’d do it.

[abb]

Very sound logic. I tend to concur.

[mewzilla]

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.

[Carry_Okie]

So, how much telecommuting has brought down the levels of CO/greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere...it has to be substantial.

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.

[cgbg]

“Mandates cannot reverse logical trends.”

When the last stupid bosses retire or die the days of the commute to urban wastelands will be over.

[cgbg]

Some businesses pay people to perform tasks.

Other businesses pay people to show up at specific locations and pretend they are performing tasks.

[Round Earther]

Work at home is great for employees, great for their families and great for the company.

[Alas Babylon!]

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.

[dfwgator]

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.

[cgbg]

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.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

It is the grown up version of a toddler tantrum.

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.