Forget ‘Coffee Badging’: ‘Calendar Stalkers’ Game Return to Office

As return-to-office mandates tighten, hybrid workers are turning to a new survival tactic: calendar stalking. Employees are obsessively tracking their bosses’ Outlook schedules to maximize face time, coordinating their own office days to match so they can perform strategic walk-bys. Stanford economist Nick Bloom calls the behavior an outgrowth of “peacocking” – showing up solely to show off.