Amazon wants to gradually reintroduce the requirement to work in an office. But they are using “coffee badging” to get around the requirement. Now Amazon is taking action against this because they do not want to approve of this trick.
What do some employees do? According to our colleagues at Business Insider, some employees rely on what is known as “coffee badging”: employees come into the office, register their presence, then drink a coffee and then leave the office again. This means that they have fulfilled their obligation to be present in the office.
Amazon required its employees to come to the office three times a week, but there was no minimum hour requirement for each visit. This allowed them to solve the attendance requirement quite elegantly.
Amazon measures working hours and sets minimum attendance requirements
What is Amazon doing now? Amazon has now started measuring working hours individually for each person in the office and has set minimum times:
Reactions to the new regulations have also been cautious. Some have already stated that there are surely employees who will soon figure out how to get around this obligation. And this is not the first time that Amazon has had a fight with its employees.
Amazon has been struggling for months to get people back to the office
This is what’s behind it: Amazon has been trying to get its employees back to the office for months. But Amazon has faced fierce resistance from its employees:
Around 30,000 people signed an internal petition against this policy. But Amazon was not deterred and even went one step further:
Revenge for the home office: The boss of an IT company forced an employee to return to the office. But the employee took revenge on his boss by using a legal trick: the employee is forced into the office by the boss – the employee gives in and has his moment of triumph a short time later