The owner of the company I work for decided to install an electric card reader on the front door a couple months ago.
Before this installation, there was no form of security at the front door, so everyone was going in and out as they pleased.
No one was monitoring who left or came in, and there were quite a few employees who were using this to their advantage. Some would go out to lunch and not come back until at least an hour after they were due to return. Since the company owner hardly ever visited the building, it wasn’t hard for the lazier employees to do whatever they felt like doing. The electronic card reader’s installation changed everything for those employees. Now all employees are required to swipe their electronic access card to enter or exit the front door. The card has our name and employee ID on it, and it records the date and time on every swipe. Each employee has their own card, and are charged fifty dollars if they lose it. If someone uses a different employee’s card to swipe in or out, they can be fired immediately. So this means no more long lunches. I never took long lunches in the first place, so that wasn’t my main concern. What I am really worried about is losing my card. I tend to misplace things a lot, and at fifty dollars a card, I could wind up losing whole paycheck to keep replacing them!