<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>isykt</author><text>&amp;gt; People can debate endlessly over the benefits, or not, of working in an office but it’s a perfectly reasonable thing for a company to want its workers to show up at an office and reasonable to measure if they actually do. This is a non story.&lt;p&gt;Germany disagrees with you. This kind of employee surveillance is illegal.</text><parent_chain><item><author>JCM9</author><text>My high school used to track attendance on if we showed up every day or not. Was I supposed think this was odd?&lt;p&gt;People can debate endlessly over the benefits, or not, of working in an office but it’s a perfectly reasonable thing for a company to want its workers to show up at an office and reasonable to measure if they actually do. This is a non story.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Leaked screenshot shows Amazon now tracking individual employee attendance</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-forced-rto-tracking-employee-office-attendance-2023-9</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>greesil</author><text>So much carrying of water for our corporate masters here. The pandemic showed that we could be effective remote. So what&amp;#x27;s the point of this?</text><parent_chain><item><author>JCM9</author><text>My high school used to track attendance on if we showed up every day or not. Was I supposed think this was odd?&lt;p&gt;People can debate endlessly over the benefits, or not, of working in an office but it’s a perfectly reasonable thing for a company to want its workers to show up at an office and reasonable to measure if they actually do. This is a non story.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Leaked screenshot shows Amazon now tracking individual employee attendance</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-forced-rto-tracking-employee-office-attendance-2023-9</url></story>