5 days a week in the office is inevitable. Everyone will start following Amazon’s lead.
I’m 100% remote so I’m sure at some point, some overpaid exec will have the great idea to get rid of positions like mine.
Smart companies will allow remote work, and be able to recruit top talent that wants to work remotely. From what I’ve heard, Amazon is a terrible place to work in pretty much any non-executive role.
They have designed the workplace to find/make a specific type of person.
Ridiculous blanket policies like no music and no real training for any postition nor any sort of accountability for work standards shows me they want a docil ‘braindead’ workforce that will just comply with whatever they are ‘asked’ to do.
My company saved so much money by going fully remote. They were practically begging us to go fully remote years before the pandemic started, but there were too many people still attached to office culture (honestly I was one of them, I didn’t have enough space where I lived at the time for a dedicated office and I had toddlers running around and interrupting all the time). But as soon as lockdowns came, my company seized the moment and permanently closed our main office and half of our second office (they still kept a smaller office for visitors and for the occasional on-site meetings and events). The rent alone was in the $1m/year range, we got free breakfast and lunch, fully stocked snack cabinets, unlimited coffee, drinks on tap, etc. They don’t have to pay for any of that anymore.
I work in big tech and am surprised (and thankful!) that my employer hasn’t done any RTO moves since the pandemic. While everyone else was trying to get people back in the office, we were being told to go full remote because they saw that we didn’t come in often enough to warrant a dedicated desk space. Cross fingers that this doesn’t change.
5 days a week in the office is inevitable. Everyone will start following Amazon’s lead. I’m 100% remote so I’m sure at some point, some overpaid exec will have the great idea to get rid of positions like mine.
Smart companies will allow remote work, and be able to recruit top talent that wants to work remotely. From what I’ve heard, Amazon is a terrible place to work in pretty much any non-executive role.
I’m convinced amazon is doing some psy-ops shit.
They have designed the workplace to find/make a specific type of person.
Ridiculous blanket policies like no music and no real training for any postition nor any sort of accountability for work standards shows me they want a docil ‘braindead’ workforce that will just comply with whatever they are ‘asked’ to do.
My company saved so much money by going fully remote. They were practically begging us to go fully remote years before the pandemic started, but there were too many people still attached to office culture (honestly I was one of them, I didn’t have enough space where I lived at the time for a dedicated office and I had toddlers running around and interrupting all the time). But as soon as lockdowns came, my company seized the moment and permanently closed our main office and half of our second office (they still kept a smaller office for visitors and for the occasional on-site meetings and events). The rent alone was in the $1m/year range, we got free breakfast and lunch, fully stocked snack cabinets, unlimited coffee, drinks on tap, etc. They don’t have to pay for any of that anymore.
I am acquainted with some Amazon employees in various roles. Their experience would seem to confirm that.
I work in big tech and am surprised (and thankful!) that my employer hasn’t done any RTO moves since the pandemic. While everyone else was trying to get people back in the office, we were being told to go full remote because they saw that we didn’t come in often enough to warrant a dedicated desk space. Cross fingers that this doesn’t change.
Can confirm, absolutely toxic and miserable work environment based on firsthand anecdotes of colleagues.