Let the paying for badge swipes begin. If I pay someone to swipe my badge in and out everyday the metrics will be skewed.

https://www.vergesense.com/ is one such company that we use at my work as well as badge data and logs for laptops connecting to corporate wifi. All of these data points can be extrapolated to determine if someone has been in office or not.

There’s a running joke of “well I got my one swipe in today, I’m going home” which seems to be common for every office I visit.

So show up once in a while and badge in 30 times or so. “I’ve been coming in all month, your badge reader must be broken if it’s saying it was all on the same day”. If they want to play games then let’s play some fucking games.

Don’t resist. Leave. Tell employers that are hostile to remote workers that you can find work elsewhere.

Do what you want, but please stop posting jobs as remote unless you actually want to hire remote. I am applying for the posted remote job. I am open that I intend to work remote. Why the fuck am I getting an HR person on a phone screen telling me they really want people in the office??

Stop posting remote. You don’t want me and I don’t want you. We don’t need to talk!