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I worked at one of these companies. Yes, office attendance is tracked by badge swipes, but that's no secret. There's an intranet page where employees can see th

I worked at one of these companies. Yes, office attendance is tracked by badge swipes, but that's no secret. There's an intranet page where employees can see their own attendance and the minimum required. Everybody knew that there was a minimum attendance upon taking the job. I read a post on Reddit a few months back saying that everybody's body language in the office was being fed into a machine learning algorithm to analyse their emotions and stress levels to feed it back to their managers. Which is complete horseshit. They also said that everybody's laptop camera was being used to scan the surroundings for evidence of alcohol/drug use. Again, totally nuts.

clumsysmurf 3y ago
> I read a post on Reddit a few months back saying that everybody's body language in the office was being fed into a machine learning algorithm That was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35958286 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35958286
d3w4s9 3y ago
> everybody knew that there was a minimum attendance upon taking the job I have to point out that a lot of people were hired when companies were still saying "as long as your team/organization is ok with working remotely, you don't need to come in office" until they completely changed their mind.
commandlinefan 3y ago
> analyse their emotions and stress levels to feed it back to their managers I’ve spent too much time doing analytics to believe stuff like this. The report is in CSV and there’s a comma in one of the fields on line 48,329 which caused the ready of the feed to be silently discarded.