Amazon’s new office tracker lets managers see who came, for how long, and from where

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• Amazon launched a dashboard for managers to track office attendance in real time
• Managers can view hours, days, and office locations for each employee
• Employees are sorted into categories based on office attendance patterns

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Amazon has rolled out a new internal tool that lets managers track office attendance for corporate employees in much more detail than before. The information comes from a document reviewed by Business Insider, which says the company started giving access to this dashboard in December 2025.

The dashboard shows how many days employees have worked from Amazon offices, how many hours they spent inside Amazon buildings, and which office locations they are logging in from. Earlier, managers could access most of this data too, but they had to request it from HR. Now, it’s available on demand, meaning no waiting, no formal emails, no internal ticket raising. Managers can simply open the tool and see the attendance patterns of their team over the last eight weeks.

Amazon has not changed its stance on office work. The company still expects most corporate employees to follow a five-days-a-week work from office schedule, a rule it began enforcing in 2025. The new dashboard is meant to give managers a clearer picture of who is meeting those expectations and who isn’t.

The tool sorts employees into three categories. The first is “Low-Time Badgers.” These are employees whose median office time is less than four hours per day, calculated over eight weeks. The second is “Zero Badgers,” employees who did not badge into any Amazon building in that period. The third category is “Unassigned Building Badgers,” employees who show up in buildings other than their assigned office more than half the time.

Amazon says these labels are not meant to shame employees but to highlight attendance that is far outside documented expectations. A company spokesperson told Business Insider that the data and functionality already existed for more than a year, but the dashboard has now been standardised to look the same for all managers. The spokesperson also said the company continues to see the cultural benefits of teams working in the office together.

Still, Amazon is asking managers to “apply judgment” before turning these attendance flags into formal disciplinary action. The document stresses that office presence should encourage meaningful collaboration through direct team interactions, not just badge swipes.

This move follows Amazon’s earlier attempt to crack down on “coffee badging” in 2024, when employees were told they needed to stay in office between two to six hours a day for attendance to count. Some employees had criticised the approach, comparing it to school monitoring. Similar tracking systems have also been introduced by companies like Samsung, Dell, Bank of America, and JPMorgan in different forms, showing that Amazon isn’t the only company watching badge data closely.

For now, the key point is simple: attendance at Amazon is being tracked, shared with managers directly, and has quietly become a measurable part of internal performance conversations.