“Monitoring Their Presence Alone Won’t Motivate Them To Work In-Office.”

Indeed. RTO explained, simply.

Here’s a new-ish article on something called “Office Badging,” whereby people who work hybrid and have assigned in-office days will go in for about 1–2 hours, make a few “appearances” around a coffee station and within the hallways, and then disappear and go home for the rest of the day.

Is 'coffee badging' in the office a bad thing?

Obviously executives and middle management don’t like this, because it violates the hybrid in-office nature of return-to-office (RTO), much like the same executives and middle managers are “cranky” about the 4–6pm “dead zone” whereby people generally are doing familial or kid activities.

Executives Are Now “Cranky” About An Employee “Dead Zone”

First thing to realize: most people did something like this, especially on Fridays, well before COVID and hybrid models came into…