Leaked screenshot shows Amazon is now tracking individual employee office attendance records, reversing its anonymized data policy::Amazon is now sharing individual employee office attendance records in its latest move to force workers back to the office.
Red flag, working conditions must be bad.
Always have been.
I mean they are notorious for having horrible working conditions even for developers lol
What could go wrong?
I’m wondering if they get away with it despite the lack of stock movement. So much of staff compensation is tied to stock price. Staff previously got RSUs allocated and stayed because they went up in value every year but lately it’s been stagnant. People are less likely to put up with this bullshit if there is no big payout at the end.
Isn’t this illegal in Europe?
Yes! Tracking employees performance is a big no no 🙄
In Germany you can’t fire someone because of “performance evaluation”.
Must suck ass to work with there then. I can’t stand teammates not pulling their weight. Germany ain’t Europe BTW.
Germany ain’t Europe BTW.
I understand that this person is playing the heel/troll to get a rise out of people, but can we for a moment appreciate how hilarious this sentence is?
Can you imagine how uneducated AND unwilling to learn a person in 2023 would have to be, to not only think that Germany isn’t in Europe (it’s on both the continent of Europe and a long-time key member of the European Union), but to not know how to check that their Information is correct with a quick Google?
Honestly I nearly spat out my tea laughing, impressive heeling!
You misunderstood what he said. He is saying that Germany isn’t all of Europe, that there is more to Europe then just Germany. He is completely right in this context, not all European countries have the same workers right as Germany.
He is still a bootlicking troll though.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The new badge report for individual employees is a reversal from Amazon’s previous policy of only tracking anonymized, aggregated office attendance data, which it said was shared with managers, primarily for safety and space planning purposes.
For example, at a recent internal townhall meeting, Amazon’s SVP Peter DeSantis told his engineering team that office badging data is “informational” and only shared in “very aggregated ways,” as Insider previously reported.
In an email to Insider, Amazon’s spokesperson Rob Munoz said badge data does not account for reported paid-time off, personal time, or work from a non-corporate building.
The memo added badge data is not available to employees in Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Korea, or Taiwan.
“We’re providing this data to help guide conversations as needed between employees and managers about coming into the office with their colleagues,” said the memo, obtained by Insider.
Amazon’s CEO Andy Jassy, meanwhile, told employees in an internal meeting last month that it’s “past” the time to commit to the company’s RTO policy, saying “it’s probably not going to work out” for those refusing to comply.
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Despising not surprising.
No shit.
This has always been a thing, at least while I was there. I was able to look up Bezos’ performance and attendance. Internal stuff was pretty transparent and it’s what I loved about the job.
erm. What would a Bezos performance quantification look like?
Was a 100% bald, greedy fuck all day.
Baldness and greediness increased by 12% Year over Year. We saw an overall decline in employee health, for that I want to thank the board and our shareholders, we couldn’t have done it without them.
I sincerely doubt that.
I wish I had a screenshot myself… haven’t been there for 3 years now. None of this information is visible without being on site with a physical security key fob. May have had to of also been a tier 3 employee and up.
I left Amazon as an L6 after a decade, and we never had access to that sort of data.
Is it possible that you were a clueless L6? I may be mistaken at the level of stuff you could see but you definitely could view everyone’s task and the time in which they were on it. Bezo’s had a lot of “time off task” logged. As just a tier 3 I knew more about a majority of things that my L4’s never bothered to learn or know about.
Is it possible that you’re full of shit?
No, I’m not one to completely make up shit on the internet, but I do know who to steer clear of when I come across them.
Wow, an employee is tracking when employees are at work? Outrageous!
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It’s not about tracking if they are working, it’s about tracking if they are at the office.
