This is the best summary I could come up with:
Person was asked to come back to office but said nah.
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I almost fell on that…
This is the best summary I could come up with:
As a person with a disability, I started working remotely before the pandemic, after years of stressful in-office experiences.
I’ve had to be hospitalized multiple times for stress-related illnesses after working in person for more than a couple of months.
At that time, Amazon’s internal messaging was that we would be remote indefinitely — there were no whispers that RTO was coming, so I felt confident relocating.
Our work involved sensitive employee data, so we couldn’t have meetings or calls in a cubicle or open-office floor plan.
Paired with the mass layoffs that were happening nearly every quarter, I didn’t feel I had job security.
In response to a request from Insider to comment on Amazon’s return-to-office order, a spokesperson for the company said: "We believe that being in the office at least three days a week is the right long-term approach because it drives culture, team connection, innovation, and learning.
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“We believe that being in the office at least three days a week is the right long-term approach because it drives culture, team connection, innovation, and learning.”
Translation: We paid for a bunch of buildings and need people to come back and use them. We also don’t recognize that you’re adults that can get their work done without us physically seeing you.
Anyone can make browsing the web look like work from a desk. Frankly, I get more work done at home without being distracted. I’m pretty chatty at work and I could engage in long, usually work related, conversations without actually getting any “work” done (software).
Also, if I wfh I can get an extra hour of sleep and take a nap on my lunch break, which makes my work higher quality.
It’s all about control.
Slightly different translation: We need to lay people off, but announcing layoffs will drop our stock prices, so enacting policies to get people to quit - especially if those policies disproportionately target people with disabilities, health issues, people who don’t conform to our economic or social values (must be willing to be yanked around by corporate, be willing to live paycheck to paycheck in high cost of living area, must not have other priorities such as children) - so that we don’t have to deal stock price drops or lawsuits for laying off vulnerable members of staff.
It’s ‘secret layoff’ with a purity test.
Folks who are less committed to the corporate bullshit fail. Folks who have other priorities fail. Those who really believe, or are desperate for the job are left behind.For sure. This essentially axes all of your remote employees.
Announcing layoffs usually improves stock price 🤣
I have to be honest: I don’t know if you’re right.
What I know (or at least, think I know), is that layoffs indicate poor company performance and that tanks stock prices.
But the reality is that the world has moved into an openly greedy phase of business. It’s totally plausible that companies and investors don’t bother with the charade and know that layoffs are often just money grabs. I don’t have time right now to actually look it up, but what you said is totally believable, and probably accurate.Ugh. Can we replace business classes with empathy classes?
Why would Amazon, the company hyperfocused on efficiency, make office space the one thing they won’t budge on?
Because Andy Jassy is an idiot on an ego trip.
I’m convinced that the board of these companies want employees back, because it helps their other investments in oil, real estate, auto industry.
This isn’t a popular opinion, and maybe my experience is vastly different from others, but during the pandemic I had to physically go to work. The ones that worked from home were not as effective as they were in person. I base this on the amount of extra work we did because they did not have to report.
