coffee badging

Employers are cracking down on attendance in the office and employees are coming up with ingenious ways to hang onto WFH (working from home).  Coffee badging involves turning up at work and being registered on the company’s surveillance system as in the office (as by swiping a badge).  Usually the employee stays for a little while — long enough to have a cup of coffee and a bit of chat with other members of the team.  They might even pop in and say hello to the boss.

Then, as the office has got over the initial meet and greet and settled down to do some work,  they quietly exit and go home where they can work in peace, balance their work and home life and get the benefits of WFH.  Possibly even slip back into the trackie daks.