[0cf8612b2e1e]

That would be a terrible user experience. Most places are not diligent about ensuring each employee separately badges past a barrier. Common to hold the door for Bob while he is juggling a coffee. Boom, missed badge swipe and now things are forever imbalanced.

[TaylorAlexander]

Notably Apple expects each person to badge in. Google does not, and it is pretty easy to follow a group of people in to a building, but you cannot do that at Apple.

[closeparen]

If you care about this at all you’d use a turnstile.

[borski]

Because nobody has ever jumped over one of those or triggered the motion sensor on the other side of those paddle gates or gone around the side or underneath...

[ethbr1]

The cases where that's common are lightly-monitored scenarios though: railway or metro.

As the saying goes, the wall is only as good as how frequently the guards patrol it.