One of Amazon’s (AMZN.O) top executives defended the new, controversial 5-day-per-week in-office policy on Thursday, saying those who do not support it can leave for another company.
Speaking at an all-hands meeting for AWS, unit CEO Matt Garman said nine out of 10 workers he has spoken with support the new policy, which takes effect in January, according to a transcript reviewed by Reuters.
Those who do not wish to work for Amazon in-office five days per week can quit, he suggested.
Let them enforce it. Don’t quit, that’s what they are trying to accomplish anyway.
Or just skip ahead and unionize.
Both things should be done simultaneously!
Along with eating the CEO with a side of Jeff Bezos
How would that work? People are just going to stay home in front of a disconnected PC and somehow not get fired?
Institutional inertia is real. Obviously every situation is different but in most cases they are not blocking remote access, they’re just tracking if you badged in that day. If you are still doing work, it’s going to take them awhile to respond - they are hoping you quit rather than having to fire you.
Why would the PC be disconnected?
If the company doesn’t want you to work from home they’re not going to let you connect to their system.
That’s constructive dismissal
They want people in the office, but they still want people to be able to work when they’re at home too. No shot RTO comes with blocking remote access to corp systems, or even prod for that matter.
How would oncalls be handled without it even?
I’m guessing by going into the office haha.
Fuck’em.
Oncall is usually a 24/7 type of thing, where speed is a major factor, and I doubt they would want to restrict oncall engineers to on-site only.
I’m not seeing anything about 24/7 on call workers. The article is about five days a week employees. Did I miss something?
Bork is saying a blanket ban on computers connecting remotely would not work in a company that has a huge operations department who need to be on-call.
Usually it’s phased and they don’t cut off remote access entirely. They still want you to be able to work on the weekend at home…