Amazon will reintroduce the office requirement gradually. However, with “Coffee Badging,” they circumvent the obligation. Now, Amazon is taking action against this trick because they do not want to endorse it.
What are some employees doing? According to colleagues from Businessinsider, some employees are resorting to what’s called “Coffee Badging”: employees come to the office, check in, have a coffee, and then leave the office again. This way, they fulfill the presence requirement in the office.
Amazon required its employees to appear in the office three times a week, but there was no minimum hours obligation for each visit. This allowed for a rather elegant solution to the attendance requirement.
Amazon measures working hours and sets minimum for attendance requirement
What is Amazon doing now? Amazon has now started to individually measure the working hours for each person in the office and has established minimum times:
- Some employees were informed that a minimum of two hours per visit is required to count as attendance in the office.
- Some teams were instructed to stay for at least six hours per visit.
- In an email to Businessinsider, Margaret Callahan, a spokesperson for Amazon, stated that the company has begun to speak directly with employees who have not spent enough time in the office.
Reactions to the new regulations have also been lukewarm. Some have already stated that there are surely employees who will soon find out how to circumvent this obligation. And this is not the first time Amazon has struggled with its employees.
Amazon has been struggling for months to bring people back to the office
What’s behind this: Amazon has been trying for months to bring its employees back to the office. However, Amazon has faced strong resistance from employees:
About 30,000 people signed an internal petition opposing this policy. But Amazon was undeterred and even took it a step further:
- They blocked the promotion of employees who did not adhere to the work regulations.
- Amazon’s CEO Andy Jassy warned employees who do not comply with the guidelines that they would have to leave the company.
Revenge for working from home: The head of an IT company recently forced an employee to return to the office. However, the employee “revenged” himself on his boss by using a legal trick: Employee is forced by boss to go to the office – He concedes, shortly after, has his moment of triumph
