Big Brother

I don't have any meetings tomorrow, my manager is at a conference, so why am I still thinking of going into the office tomorrow?  Well, this is unsettling, but apparently our in-office attendance is being tracked by our key cards.  This is why they have started sharing information with management about how many days of the week people are going into the office.  And, as was presented at a recent all-hands meetings, a relatively large percentage of our department are coming in less than they should do.  I have this horrible feeling that they are going to insist on us coming into the office more often, and that individual people may start getting warnings about their attendance if they don't.  This is a ridiculous level of oversight that I don't approve of - treating employees with a lack of respect and a lack of trust.  If working from the office or working from home doesn't make any difference to how good a job we do - which is the case for almost all of us - then it shouldn't matter where we work.  And if the next step is to start monitoring the actual number of hours we spend in the office, which would seem logical, then I am in real trouble!