Want to Beat Your Return-to-Office Mandate? Try ‘Coffee Badging' at Your Own Risk
Briefly showing face at the office might fulfill a requirement, but bosses say they're promoting and giving raises to workers who stay all day.
The term "cup of coffee in majors" is used to describe a brief baseball career in the Big Leagues. Some white-collar employees are now leaving their office as soon as possible after arriving and call this practice "coffee badgeging."
The ballplayer would prefer to stay, while the people who are abandoning their desks wouldn't have shown up at all.