Amazon shared new guidelines that give managers a template for terminating employees over RTO.

Amazon tells managers they can now fire employees who won’t come into the office 3 times a week::Amazon shared new guidelines that give managers a template for terminating employees over RTO.

  • echo64@lemmy.worldEnglish
    55·
    1 year ago

    Have you considered that lowering headcount via rto firings increases profits, which leads to short-term growth in the stock market, so bonuses? Sure, some people will lose their homes, but someone else got a new boat. When God closes a door, he opens a window 🙏

    • Blooper@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      An anecdote:

      My high-paying tech job wants us back 2 days a week. I intentionally bought a house near a train that will get me to the downtown office in about 15 minutes while many of my coworkers live in the distant suburbs where commuting will require a lot more time and effort.

      Despite this, I STILL don’t go into the office. The biggest reasons:

      1. Nobody is there - it’s a ghost town.
      2. I’m far less productive while I’m there because I have to leave early to pick up my kids from school.
      3. My boss doesn’t go in at all - ever - due to extremely valid health reasons (his wife is undergoing cancer treatment).
      4. His boss moved out of state. Like way, way out of state. He’s got a nice office with a beautiful view. He doesn’t and can’t use it.
      5. My boss’s boss’s boss - (the CTO) moved to Florida and, rumor has it, lives full-time on his yacht.

      I mean… at some point we just have to acknowledge that our giant, empty office space would be much better suited as housing.