Amazon Is Reportedly Tracking 'Coffee Badging' Workers and Their Real In-Office Hours

Companies (and cities) are cracking down connected return-to-office policies, and Amazon is joining nan club.

The tech elephantine has reportedly begun cracking down connected "coffee badging," (a term for hybrid employees who travel to nan office, drawback a coffee, chat up immoderate coworkers, and past leave), by search nan number of hours they are successful nan agency — and installing a clip minimum.

Related: Amazon CEO Andy Jassy Reprimands Employees Resisting Return to Office Mandate

"Over a twelvemonth agone we asked labor to commencement coming into nan agency 3 aliases much days per week because we judge it would output nan champion semipermanent results for our customers, business, and culture. And it has," Amazon spokesperson Margaret Callahan told Business Insider. "Now that it's been much than a year, we're starting to speak straight pinch labor who haven't regularly been spending meaningful amounts of clip successful nan agency to guarantee they understand nan value of spending value clip pinch their colleagues."

Leaked Slack messages viewed by BI showed that labor crossed different teams had minimum hours mandates for an in-office sojourn to count toward attendance. Some teams had two-hour minimums, others six.

"Remember erstwhile we were measured connected metrics that really mattered?" 1 worker reportedly wrote connected Slack.

In February 2023, CEO Andy Jassy said that astir Amazon labor should beryllium expected to beryllium successful nan agency astatine slightest 3 days a week. That argumentation went into effect 3 months later successful May.

Shortly after, another leaked soul archive revealed that Amazon managers were allowed to occurrence labor if they didn't comply pinch their team's return-to-office policy.

Amazon's move connected distant activity continued that November erstwhile leaked documents showed that labor seeking a promotion needed to beryllium successful nan agency nary little than 3 days a week. If not, they'd request support from a VP to summation promotion eligibility.

Related: Amazon Will Now Fire Workers Who Don't Come Into nan Office

"It's past nan clip to disagree and commit," Jassy said during an soul gathering past summer. "And if you can't disagree and commit, I besides understand that, but it's astir apt not going to activity retired for you astatine Amazon because we are going backmost to nan agency astatine slightest 3 days a week, and it's not correct for each of our teammates to beryllium successful 3 days a week and for group to garbage to do so."

Amazon did not instantly respond to Entrepreneur's petition for comment.