I work in a manufacturing environment. A few years ago they decided they needed a company social media app. They hired, or more likely were sold the idea by Salesforce and built this stupid ass website, then went on a fucking War campaign to get people to install the app on their phone.

They demanded. They begged. They removed functions of HR to the app exclusively. When we protested they simply said no, no room to negotiate, no give. You will use the app or you will not have access to certain information required to do your job. When they closed the plant one day and posted it on the app, they threatened to write up an entire shift that showed up to work anyway without knowing any better.

Because apparently, when you get up at 4 am the first thing you're supposed to do every day is check an app on your phone to see if you have work that day.

They used to just push out a robo call.

When we have committee meetings with HR they go something like this.

HR: how can we get you guys on the app Committee: how can we retrieve these functions from the app HR: you can't Committee: that's your answer.

There have been at least 6 versions of this meeting that I have been a part of.

Most of my coworkers are older than me. Few of them have fancy phones, generally the most basic phone you can get. A number of my coworkers are on parole or work release and have limited access to smart phones for one reason or another and literally have no access to the app.

I was chatting with one of the IT gals recently and apparently resistance to the app is pretty widespread. When I said "venture capital IT firm" she gave me a high five.

They want everyone using this thing and maybe 15% of the company has it. Then they switched to Workday.

It hasn't gone well.