Amazon is mandating five-day work weeks and changing the way badge data is tracked. Employees use internal Slack channels to keep things organized. The new system provides more flexibility and eliminates the need to closely track time in the office.
Amazon’s strict new RTO policies include changes to the way the company tracks attendance, according to an internal message seen by Business Insider.
The new approach provides managers with more detailed data on attendance, giving them more freedom to decide which employees are noncompliant and how to handle such situations. The message says it seems to be.
Amazon tracks when employees access the office using a company ID or badge. This summer, the company began monitoring hourly attendance in an effort to crack down on “coffee badges,” where staff stop briefly to record their day at the office.
Until recently, the company’s tracking system labeled employees such as “Inconsistent Badgers” and “Zero Badgers” depending on how they complied with the previous three-day return-to-office mandate. was being applied.
Now, according to internal messages, these designations are gone. Internal messaging also suggests that managers will get raw badge data and have more discretion over how to interpret the information and what actions to take against employees. Masu.
An Amazon spokesperson said the tool “helps employees and managers understand what’s going on the first day they join a building.”
“This information will assist in conversations between employees and managers about coming into the office with colleagues, if needed,” the spokesperson added.
Employees and managers compile details
When Amazon announced plans to require employees to work in the office five days a week, the company said in an internal FAQ document that it would continue to collect badge data, but it was unclear how exactly that would work. It was unknown.
“Badging reports generally provide visibility into the dates on which Amazon buildings were badged,” the guide states. “This includes nearly every corporate building, data center, fulfillment center, and distribution station. The badge reporting system also reflects any paid time off you record, including sick and vacation records.”
According to recent messages seen by BI, employees are using internal Slack channels to discuss how badge tracking will work under the new five-day RTO mandate.
Instead of “inconsistent badger” or “zero badger” designations, managers will now be able to see “raw data on how many days they wear a badge or take paid time off” in Slack, according to one manager. It is said that it became.
Another Amazon manager said that what is currently displayed is a “pretty basic table view.” Managers can view badge reports at any time, and they are updated daily at 5pm Pacific time, according to a Slack message.
days instead of hours
Location is not tracked, at least not in an administrator-visible way. The new tool doesn’t record how long someone was in the office or track when they came in and left the office. Instead, the new system is primarily focused on counting staff days at work.
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If an employee does not meet the five-day expectations, the internal system directs the manager to speak with the employee.
“What’s missing here is that there’s no way to tell admins what to do with this data other than making sure employees understand,” one Amazon manager said in a recent Slack message. I wrote it in “I think the answer is ‘work with your boss.’ Bosses will need to work with HR to clarify on a case-by-case basis.”
One manager said Amazon’s human resources department or company leadership may have other mechanisms to track more detailed time and attendance information.
“It’s unclear what further monitoring they will do, but they probably won’t reveal it to us,” the manager wrote. “HR is likely to see that, and HR will ask what’s wrong with employees who aren’t showing up five days a week.”
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