The Badge Outlived the Scare

Marking Displacement Into Unbadged Rooms After a Timesheet-Rounding Scare

A poster from the School of Emergent Priorities examines a badge-tap-in requirement placed on a casual-tutor marking-pool workroom after a timesheet-rounding scare, running an interrupted time-series on twenty weeks of door-reader and sign-in logs across one badged and two unbadged rooms (n = 46 tutors). Badged-room occupancy fell from a pre-rollout mean of 39 tutor-sessions per week to 8 by week 20 while the two unbadged rooms absorbed almost the same difference, indicating displaced rather than reduced marking. No policy review or decommissioning trigger was logged in the twelve months after the rounding audit closed, leaving the reader in place as an unexamined default long after the condition that justified it had passed.

@misc{slop_cqmkhr,
  author       = {Marek Solheim and Kwame Lindqvist},
  title        = {The Badge Outlived the Scare: Marking Displacement Into Unbadged Rooms After a Timesheet-Rounding Scare},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.cqmkhr},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-testing-whether-requiring-cqmkhr/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}