[88913527]

It's normal for a badge-checking system, but it's still an erosion of white-collar norms (autonomy being the key one) to be so proscriptive about how knowledge workers complete their work.

Side note, but when I worked somewhere with badged entrances, one person would badge the whole group. So this data wouldn't mean employees aren't there if there is no swipe.

[ajmurmann]

You aren't supposed to do that anyway. It seems far fetched, but someone might have been terminated without you knowing and is trying to sneak back in. At a larger enough company, this is bound to occur

[alistairSH]

I've never worked someplace that enforced individual badging. I know it happens at secure/government installations.

But, random software company in the suburbs? First person off the elevator badges and everybody else follows.

[scruple]

We're supposed to do individual scans. If I walk through a door that someone is holding for me I can my badge and make a quip about Big Brother. A lot of people don't scan in these situations and I think that's a mistake. Our employer is absolutely tracking badge scans against employees who are supposed to be RTO.

[buffington]

I've been in the tech industry since 1995, and I've never worked somewhere that didn't require individual security badges to gain access to the building. Both schemes exist in abundance.

[NBJack]

Some of the FANG certainly do, using one at a time admission enforcement devices in some (but not necessarily all) of their core offices. Amazon, Meta for sure.