Amazon tells all workers they must work from office five days a week from next year
https://m.independent.ie/business/technology/amazon-tells-all-workers-they-must-work-from-office-five-days-a-week-from-next-year/a2047811780.html
Posted by InfectedAztec
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Penny for the thoughts of any resident amazon workers
Shadow cuts. Nothing more. Nothing less. They just don’t want to pay redundancy
I recall seeing on here at some point last here that they loosened up once a certain number of people quit. But then again I did see that on here so….
Load of ballox, completely unnecessary and just adds to the climate problems with more cars on the road more often. Anybody who can work from home, should be.
That’s shocking, bigger company’s are going to push again for onsite I think. Id imagine it’s a case of the minority of employees taking the piss in many cases.
Personally I’m thankful to be in a place where the CEO and the board believe in hybrid but also know that school runs, homework and dinner with your family are a part of this. We are meant to be in 2 days in the office but I was fully remote for the school holidays.
Flexibility should be there for all non public facing roles. Like if you want to work 10-3 one day but can work 8-6 a few days later there is no harm.
If your job can be done at home then it can be outsourced to India at a fraction of the cost!
This will impact loads, amount I’ve heard that relocated due to WFH, it’ll cause loads issues
Climate Protests at AWS Data Centers?
Oh cool. 5 days of pointless long commuting to make small talk and be distracted from doing the actual job. So much unnecessary time added on to sit in an office to do a job I could do at home
let me tell you, the serfs in the warehouse wont be adversly affected by this measure. they never stopped coming in 5 days a week!
That said amazon will reap what it sows. Twitter got rid of a bunch of its best people and that hasnt helped their business. amazon will find the same happens with shadow redundancy plans. And the people who are swinging the lead will be least likely to quit as they would have to work harder at the new job. Its the motivated employee most likely to leave.
Anything to save paying out.
As others have said I’m sure, this is about 2 things
1) showing employee who is boss and giving managers more scope to micromanage.
2) pushing people who are possibly highly paid but wavering about Amazon to leave now rather than having to pay them redundancy down to road.
We are actually going backwards as a society.
The paradox of modern capitalism. Needs you to keep having children so the system can thrive and grow, but requires you to work to a schedule and attend a physical workplace that prevents you raising said children. The problem is, currently there is no great incentive for companies or even the government to work with you and come up with a solution. Fill in a few forms, pay a small fee and they’ll find a long line willing to replace you.
Mass immigration is the intended stop gap sticky plaster as we’re too overwhelmed to produce 8 or 9 sprogs like our grandparents. Although the penny is very slowly dropping, it will be another 20-30 years before realization dawns that it wasn’t exactly the cure it was believed to be, and we should instead have been making our societies and businesses more amenable to native populations producing their own children.
My company released a press release at the end of the pandemic, saying they were implementing a policy where people could work from home as much as they wanted. I considered moving out of Dublin, but thankfully never did. Then they backtracked and said everyone has to be in the office 2 days a week. Now they are talking about 3 days a week.
That whole industry is trying to frustrate people into leaving. All the while doing it on the bleeding edge of constructive dismissal. My company is pulling similar shit at the moment. It’s absolutely head melting.
Glad I don’t work for them
to think we had a chance to bring in work from home legislation that would help in terms of regional development, traffic congestion, peoples quality of life and the government only gave you the right to ask to work from home.
If your job is sitting at a desk on a computer you can work from home
Why make people redundant when you can make them leave. Maybe employees will finally learn these companies have no care or loyalty towards them.
The minute my job does this I’m out. I would rather die than go back to 2hr commute each day for no reason when I can do the job better from home and have more time and money for myself for doing so.
This lie they spew about coming together for ideas etc is only for the absolute top managers. They can work in the office and do this if they want, as if they listen to feedback from people lower down the rung where saving transport costs mean the most to.
The law should be changed that non-agreed changes to WfH policy should be considered grounds for constructive dismissal
“Amazon announces they don’t want to pay redundancies”
Tell me you want to reduce headcount without telling me.
For managers as well right? Right?
Cool! I lost a good developer to AWS. Already sent him a message about WFH for my team again.
At least they were good enough to give everyone a heads up so they can find another job.
They treat employees like machines. Cheaper to replace than maintain or fix. Burn them out then get a new one. They would replace everyone with AI tomorrow if they could. This is just a way to get people to quit without redundancy as AI starts to take up more roles within the organisation. Surprised it hasn’t started sooner tbh.
Good, pisstakers ruined it for most. Make everyone return to the office 5 days, get rid of time wasters who don’t fancy it and award those who can and put the work in with flexibility after initial period