I’d love to see senior leadership lead by example at some of these companies. If they’re doing badge tracking they could have a live leaderboard of the leadership’s total time in office. I bet it would make interesting viewing.

> Some suspect Dell's suddenly stringent office policy is an attempt to force people to quit so that the company can avoid layoffs.

The good news: you’ve selected for all the employees willing to put up with meaningless edicts.

The bad news: you’re stuck with ‘em because everyone else left.

I predict that life with get easier for IT because the remaining people will be really good at following arbitrary rules. Productivity will crater but that’s a problem for next quarter, right?

Funny how Dell supported remote work, until Michael Dell's family investment LLC started more heavily investing in office real estate.

> the corporation's human capital management software

How's my fellow human capital stock going today?

> An unnamed person reportedly "familiar with Dell" claimed that those failing to show up to a Dell office frequently enough will be referred to Dell COO Jeff Clarke.

It's the corporate equivalent of being sent to the vice principle's office in high school.

Don’t most big firms that have return to office mandates do this now? It’s hardly unique to Dell.

What's next? Implanting RFID chips in employees to track them? Maybe I shouldn't give Dell's management any ideas ...

Good luck with that. Seemed to work fine during the pandemic. What’s changed. Oh that’s right yeah. Nothing. What’s the issue here? Control. That’s all it is.