In Silicon Valley — where the tech sector created flashy office campuses — companies are letting their data lead the way. For example, Pinterest, Shopify, Uber, and Okta set up depth- and radar-based occupancy sensors on their office floors to track office attendance. While similar sensors have been used to manage energy consumption, they're now tracking how many employees use specific areas of a workplace — desks, conference rooms, soft seating areas, or cafés — along with the length of time and specific time stamps during the day. The technology also tracks movement patterns. Okta, an identity-management software company headquartered in San Francisco, has built servers specifically to house workplace data from its office sensors. But the data isn't analyzed in isolation. Okta also has servers devoted to human-resources data, which include key information around employee badges, Zoom participation, laptop connections, and virtual and in-person event attendance. The company also tracks data from its employee-experience app, allowing conference-room bookings to be analyzed against actual occupant use. https://www.businessinsider.com/okta-uses-workplace-and-employee-data-to-reimagine-the-office-2022-6
Are they speaking out of their asses??
Pinterest is also a remote-first company. I would say this article is BS
Sounds right. All companies are “listed” as clients on their website https://www.density.io/ Doesn’t mean they’re using it to begin with or still using it.
Pinterest, shop and okta are all remote first. Fake news.
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Shopify is 100% remote so wtf is this author smoking?
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So Shopify hires ex-Mossad operatives to break into homes of their remote employees to set up these sensors just in the interest of collecting such kind of workplace data. They're downstream of the Seamster team.