[tivert]

> A lot of places have badge in and out readers nowadays. Bolted in during pandemic to "help make sure we don't have too many people in the office for safety." Kept because of course it was kept.

I've been joking with my coworkers that we should pool our badges, and just rotate one person who goes in and swipes everyone's badges in, works a day, then swipes them out.

[taeric]

It is not uncommon to have an attendant posted at badge in locations. Such that... this wouldn't really be hard to put a stop to. And that is assuming you couldn't just spot it in the data.

As I said in other response, I have no doubt these things can and will get gamed. I don't like the seeming escalation that is implied by this, though. Why start down that slope, if we can avoid it? (Valid to argue that the start down that pat was the badge readers, I think. But at some point, the last step has to stop being justification for the next.)

[r00fus]

Are you serious? You’d need one attendant for each badge-in location. My work building has like a half dozen of these entries for fire reasons.

Feasible in high rises maybe not in the PNW or Bay Area.

[taeric]

Usually the badge-in spots were grouped at entryways? So, not one attendant per badge reader, but not uncommon to have a choke point that had one. If only for security reasons. Even without an attendant, there would be a camera. And this would present an obvious cluster of badge ins that can be easily inspected.

[fnordpiglet]

I think it depends on the company too and how much $$$ they have to spend on such things, but generally there’s an attendant at the entrance badge in points. They not just monitor the entry for people hopping the turnstile, but also greet guests and provide guest badges.