Business Insider reported the company circulated new guidance to managers this week informing them they can now fire workers who fail to report to the office at least three days a week and laid out the process for how such terminations should go.
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Wait..... they'll get fired for not showing up for work? Omigod, what's this world coming to?
The last job I had at the Safeway warehouse, two no call/no show absences in a row got you fired. At the ammo plant, it was stricter - the first no call/no show absence got you disqualified from your bid job unless you had a really good excuse, get two in any rolling 12 month period, and you were gone.
It was as simple as that - if you want to keep your job, come to work or at least take 2 minutes to call in.
Amazon is going about it wrong. Just simply state being here for scheduled work shifts is a condition of employment.
ReplyDeleteThey probably got use to working from home and do not like the mandate to come into the office three days per week.
ReplyDeleteAs a tech company that has been 100% remote since well before the pandemic, I look forward to being able to hire potentially competent employees at a discounted rate to keep my costs lower for my clients...
ReplyDeleteIn the company I worked for in the 1970s the boss was mandated to keep a "book" on people showing up late or taking to many "sick" days. Everybody had a sheet in the "Black Book". I saw a guy get threatened with losing his job for being 5 to 10 minutes late too many times. Call in with a bad cold 3 or 4 times in a year and you were called into the office, the door was shut and the threats of “you need to do better because your job is on the line".
ReplyDeleteYeah, but you can't move boxes via the internet. Coders and programmers can. Bit of a difference there.
ReplyDeleteYep. The type of job matters. With that said, the work from home crowd is proving to be less productive at home than they were in the office. Or so I'm reading. Of course, you can't trust anything or anyone, so who knows whose pushing for those kind of articles to be written.
DeleteWhen my employer (who owned the 11 story building we were in) said everyone had to come back in to the office, after almost 2 years of WFH, I chose retirement. I'd already sold my townhouse and moved 200 miles away. No way was I going to come back into the office without a local base to live from.
With the Information Super Highway, you can work from anywhere.
ReplyDeleteAmazon is being exclusive, not inclusive, with the attendance policy.
If no grunt work is being done, stop the spread.
Suicide nets is not home decor.
About the only way you could get fired from the large, well known, corporation I worked for was excessive absences. Later on there was working from home for some data employees. Near the end of my 35 years I was working from home three days a week. I missed the morning informal gatherings where we BS'ed about anything but also found out what happened to others last night. I missed that and always said that if I lived close to work I'd never work at home, but I had an hour commute in near-Atlanta traffic and appreciated working from home. They were beginning to appreciate the saving in office space and were talking about having shared cubicles for people when they had to come in.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like Musk is heavily invested in commercial real estate and wants to pave the way for more companies to require employees to be in the office. You can't charge rent to people who don't use your office space.
ReplyDeleteAmazon is Bezos. Twitter and Tesla are Musk.
DeleteSome people take working from home as a right which is not
ReplyDeleteI can do 97% of my work from home. I don't like driving as much as I did when I was younger, so I'm currently looking for a WFH position that pays close to my target salary. I'm willing to take about a $10K hit in order to not drive into Orlando or Gainesville, because I'd put that much into gasoline and wear on my car.
ReplyDeletePlus you don't have to deal with Florida Man.
DeleteMy job requires me to be in the lab at least three days a week. I have no problem with that. Even during the height of the panicdemic I and my fellow engineers were in the lab two or three days a week. After "it" was all over, my company decided we could keep using the "at least 3-days a week" hybrid schedule. I am in three or four days a week, using the work-from-home days to do paperwork - data analysis, creating reports, working on schematics and drawings, and so forth. I find it works quite well for me and my colleagues.
DeleteThe only engineering staff working from home almost all of the time are our software coders. Of course quite a few of them can only work remotely because they are too far away to make it into one of our few offices. Besides, what's the difference between driving into an office to sit in front of a computer writing code all day versus staying at home in front of a computer writing code all day?