Amazon: Employee Innovation the Bezos Bulldozer Way
February 27, 2026
In 2025, Amazon instituted a cute trick to monitor those who were returning to the office or RTO to work and learn if they were RIFed. Amazon has implemented a new tool to track its employees in a manner that would make Big Brother smile. Business Insider has the scoop on employee tracking in the article, “Amazon Gives Managers A New Way To Spot Employees Who Aren’t Spending Enough Time In The Office.”
The new monitoring policy tracks how often employees come to the office, how long they stay, and the locations where they work. There are there types of Amazon employees this tracking system will affect:
“The system flags three kinds of employees: “Low-Time Badgers,” defined as employees whose weekly median time in the office is less than four hours per day, averaged over a rolling eight-week period; “Zero Badgers,” who don’t badge into any Amazon building during that span; and “Unassigned Building Badgers,” who badge into a building other than the one they’re assigned to over half the time.”
Amazon put the monitoring system in place because employees weren’t abiding by the RTO. Now everyone needs to suffer under the watchful of Big Bezos Bulldozer.
Amazon just upgraded its “coffee badging” that required teams to be in office for a minimum of two to six hours. Some employees (soon to learn that each could find their future elsewhere) said coffee badging was a high school method. Amazon claims its tracking system is an effort to encourage collaboration among its employees. The company claims that “working in-office is important to our culture…”.
Here’s a question for you. Will Amazon just chip its employees like dogs. The robots would have another signal so a dawdler would not come face to face with a smart machine. Hook in an agent, and Amazon will know where every employee is and what he or she is allegedly doing every minute of every day. That sounds efficient. We know Amazon has great confidence in AI. A recent outage allegedly caused by a “good enough” AI system was traced to a human. Let’s chip that one for sure.
Whitney Grace, February 27, 2026
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