'Turnstile' tracking | EY's monitoring of staff office attendance 'not surprising for HR professionals', expert says

Accounting giant EY has been monitoring UK employees’ office attendance with a ‘turnstile’ tracking system, according to reports.

The Financial Times (FT) reported that the Big Four firm has been utilising swipe card entry data to track when employees are coming to and from the office, and cracking down on hybrid employees who aren’t hitting their quota for time spent in office.

A source told the FT that the data would act as a “carrot rather than a stick”, strongly encouraging employees to follow the in-office guidelines.

Around 50% of some departments at EY’s head office were failing to meet the minimum two days in-office per week, the FT claimed.