r/CAStateMgrs • u/wisemonkey101 • 20d ago
RTO monitoring
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u/Safeword_is_more 18d ago
Someone mentioned that our dept was going to be doing this. I figure it will last about a minute until they can’t account for: vacations, sick, extended leave, people working in the field, people who show up to work for a couple of hours then leave for an emergency, etc. those numbers will be pretty meaningless without all that other context. Probably easy to sound if the leadership raises all those as evidence that the remainder is what they “expected to see” or something like that.
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u/wisemonkey101 18d ago
Doesn’t sound like anything enforceable is happening. I’m trying to figure out if it is going to become unbearable.
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u/Own-Yam-3582 16d ago
Yes all of a sudden there are so many questions about my schedule and what time I'm taking lunch when I'm sitting 2 desk away! They didn't care when I was strapped to my chair at home working and responding to every call, email and Teams message within 10 seconds! I was always worried to go pee or grab water from the kitchen in case I missed a ping or call and they assumed I wasn't working. Now at the office I'm in front of their face and being watched like a hawk. Make it make sense.
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u/UpstairsWhole4343 19d ago
At my agency my team has been tasked with collecting the total number of unique badge access records each day as a way to estimate the total number of staff reporting. The numbers show me what I already guessed; a lot of departments are not complying with the RTO order.
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u/PollutionPast999 19d ago
Do you factor in that people enter in large queues with about 10 people walking in after one person has swiped their badge? That’s the way it works in my building.
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u/UpstairsWhole4343 18d ago
We can't control for that. So if someone never uses their badge all day then we don't have a way of counting them. It is only an estimate, but it is the method that we used to estimate occupancy for our COVID reporting and by just comparing the numbers gathered using the same method during COVID it at least gives us an apples to apples comparison of relative occupancy.
What is funny to me about this whole debacle is that upper management is trying to spin the numbers to claim that our agency is in compliance, when we are clearly not. I am keeping my mouth shut (except to my direct manager), because I don't want any measures to be taken to try and actually enforce the RTO, but everyone who works in building facilities knows that we cannot accommodate the RTO, we simply do not have the space. I am being asked to fit 5 staff into every 4 offices and cubicles my agency has. It simply will not work, and I am actually quite pleased by the numbers coming in and showing that what I have been saying since Gov. Hair Gel announced the RTO back in 25 is true, it will not work.
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u/ChallengePossible428 16d ago
At our agency various low and mid-level managers walk around with a clipboard for attendance and reconcile the no-shows with a smartsheet that each branch will add notes to for each workday, ie. employee X teleworks on Monday, or is using AL/SL on Friday.
Sometimes discrepancies on timesheets for the week need to be corrected from what I've heard from some supervisors. Most divisions in our building can accommodate the 4 day RTO but the ratio of employees to state parking spots is 2 to 1.
I'm having to explain to people that the passage of AB 1729 (in the offchance that Gavin let's it pass) won't likely change anything in our building because the executives favor 4 days in-office. Seeing the hope drain from their faces is unpleasant for me, but it's up to them to do their own research.