Amazon CEO reportedly told remote employees: ‘It’s probably not going to work out’::Amazon CEO Andy Jassy responded to employees’ reluctance to return to the office by telling them that “it’s probably not going to work out,” according to Insider.
That’s one way to thin your workforce after you overhired for the covid boom.
I’m anything but a soothsayer, but we’re already seeing remote work become a pretty important factor in people choosing employers, and it seems like most of the larger players in their respective industries are the ones trying to force people back into the office.
I could see this become a huge boom for low-mid tier companies that are able to put in more affordable offer packages but with work from home options attached and pry away talent from the high tier companies.
This could go a long way towards hopefully rebalancing the scales for quite a few things and hopefully reeling in some of these companies who have been able to take so much for so long.
Big companies pulling employees back to the office isn’t pulling them back to the office. It’s laying off higher wages and making room for lower wages.
All it does for the industry is lower the barrier for entry. Id take a pay cut to keep working remotely, no problem. 100k jobs at 80k remote means smaller employers can compete.
US companies have much more “freedoms” to rob their “workers” from benefits. By law we have the following benefits
- Yearly 20 days payed holidays
- Payed maternity leave (both parents)
- Must be payed while sick (call immediately)
- Can’t be fired during sickness
- Can’t be fired after sickness
I could tell a similar story about our healthcare (much cheaper and better)
Exactly this. Companies that offer remote work are going to get their pick of employees, while companies that live in the past are going to subsist on what’s left. Remote work can easily substitute for a huge amount of pay, because for a lot of employees that pay cut is less than what they’ll save by not having to live in, say, San Francisco.
What an out of touch wind bag. Oh sorry I meant douche bag. I’ve literally never seen a single positive story in the news about Amazon like ever. Plus their shit is filled with cheap Chinese ripoffs, exactly why I stopped using eBay too.
I wonder why idiots like this can become CEO.
What do you mean? The CEO’s job is to extract as much value as possible from of the worker, fucking over customers just enough that they don’t stop buying stuff from the company and generating short tern value for stock owners. If he has shown himself able to do that; he will get the CEO position.
Again COVID people have already been working remote. Do I have to explain agin.
“Fucking over customers”, personally I don’t want RATS as CEO.
Dumbass
Hey idiot, didn’t you notice what happened during COVID.?
Idiot?
Yep. This solidifies my belief- irs a real estate issue
It’s gotta be. If they were concerned about collective action they would be all for remote work, it’s much harder for coworkers to bond or fraternize in remote positions.
Yes and no. While it’s harder for workers to fraternize, I think they’re also concerned that more of that fraternization would take place through channels that they can’t observe.
I think it’s the intersection of a lot of different issues (most things are), and most of them are about keeping workers beaten down and under control, but real estate is definitely a big part of the push we’ve seen in the media to suggest that remote work is somehow bad and going to go away.
Holy crap. He seriously has the most punchable looking face I’ve seen in months.
I am just so damn sick of every CEO.
Amazon has done way worse stuff to employees and they’ve not rebelled. They will 100% hold fast on 3 days in the office and be happy to see the back of anyone who leaves over it.
I’m not even talking about the abuses of drivers and warehouse workers. I’m talking about their tech offices. They are notorious for their hard driving long hours, darwinian culture, and aggressive managers.
Sit on a hot desk outside his office and just let it rip with a chesty cough.
A lot of people were bragging about using their mouse wigglers, running errands while working or having multiple remote jobs during the pandemic. What did they think it’s going to happen?
