Coffee Badging is one of a slew of new work-related terms to hit the public’s consciousness since we put the pandemic behind us and some companies have begun mandating that their employees spend a certain amount of time at the office.
Specifically, Coffee Badging describes showing up to the office because the boss says you have to be there three days a week, swiping your badge to show you were there, grabbing a coffee, and then going back home to actually start your workday.
Given that very few office jobs make use of an actual time clock, badge swipes are the substitute, and although it’s entirely possible to track the number of hours between a swipe in and a swipe out, most of the return to work policies drafted so far have only specified the number of days per week that office time is required – it doesn’t say anything about the number of hours per day that are required.
Predictably, employees are taking advantage of this, adhering to the letter of the policy, but probably violating the spirit in which it was intended.
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