Return-to-office rebellion sparks wild office behavior as Wall Street and Amazon demand workers show

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Return-to-office rebellion sparks wild office behavior as Wall Street and Amazon demand workers show up

Daily Mail
By ALICE WRIGHT
8 August 2025



As employers push harder for in-person work, employees are finding new ways to resist — without outright refusing to show up.

Short of simply refusing to turn up office workers are finding new creative solutions to limit their in-person hours.

The most popular trend du jour, driven largely by millennials, is 'coffee badging'. It involves showing up at the office just long enough to grab a coffee, greet the right people, and then quietly leave to finish the day working remotely.

The behavior is now so widespread that executives are seeing it as a threat to their efforts to return workforces to the office.

Three-quarters of companies say they are struggling with employees coffee badging, a recent report found.

At Samsung, the practice got so out of hand that its US semiconductor division has rolled out a return-to-office monitoring tool, Business Insider reported earlier this week.

The 'compliance tool' makes sure staff are turning up as often as expected by their bosses and also prevents 'lunch/coffee badging,' the company wrote in a memo to employees.

Amazon has also cracked down, having one-on-one conversations with repeat offenders, Fortune reported.

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I have done this. Had a job once with a major multi-national company in which I had no direct boss. Was not some kind of top executive, I just happened to fall out of the matrix where I was totally on my own. Loved it.

It is easy to get lost in the noise in a gigantic organization. Nobody knew who I was or why I was there or what I was supposed to be doing.

This was before COVID. Everyone was expected to be at work.

But yes, I would show up for a couple of hours and make sure I was seen by lots of people and then I would go home, drink, and play on the computer every day. You had to card-in but there was no card needed to leave. So I had a record of being there. It lasted for about six months until my ideas started to become popular, I became a kind of leader and had to attend and lead meetings and such.

It was really cool while it lasted. Can relate to this article.

[DCPatriot]

Had never seen this forecasted by anyone during the 'Plague', even in passing.

The only solution is a mandated Basic-Training 'Bootcamp'.

"ALRIGHT... YOU WANKERS...PARTY'S OVER!!"

[Fishrrman]

Install time clocks.
Punch in in the morning.
Punch out in the evening.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

The trauma is likely caused by interfering with the second gig these guys have been doing since COVID went down.

Always follow the money