Amazon’s leadership recently added a requirement that employees under consideration for promotions be in the office at least three times per week to comply with the company’s mandate that went into effect earlier this year, according to internal Amazon documents previously reported by Insider and CNBC.
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Remember when it was show up or hit the unemployment line?
...this is for the work-from-home crowd who hate the office, not the slackers who never work?
ReplyDeletean excellent example of cutting off your nose to spite your face:
ReplyDeleteif an employee does excellent work from home, why bring him into an office environment which can provide so many distractions
If they actually worked that well from home, there isn't one profit-driven employer who would demand a return to office.
DeleteIt is a tax thing. These large companies negotiate tax breaks with local and state governments to have a certain amount of people employed at their facility. It supposed to support the surrounding businesses. Without the minimum number of butts in seats they are in violation of the agreement and end up with a big tax bill.
DeleteBeen working remote since March 2020 and if they tell me to come back in I'll retire that day. No big threat since I'm going to retire anyway but I'm not going back in. Been working since 1976 and have been everything from a janitor to an executive riding around in a corporate jet and it's all BS. They want people back in the office because remote work is no way to run a slave plantation.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's the employees with the blue vans the order is referring to.
ReplyDeleteOnce you open Pandora's box there is no going back. The only "office" I'm ever returning to is the one in my home, 30 steps from my bedroom.
ReplyDeleteI was a computer programmer and later in system support. For probably fifteen years I worked two or three days at home. I started the days at home with coffee and a muffin on the back porch with the dog, but they got at least as much work out of me at home as at work. But through it all, I said if I didn't have an hour commute to work each way, I'd rather be at work. I missed the "meetings" standing around learning what every one was doing and ,how they fixed things and what happened over night. Well, a certain amount of BS was included.I realize all jobs don't require a lot of interaction. Mine did.
ReplyDeleteI was the IT Project Manager for Customer Support in a fast growing Communications company. They turned down my request for additional staff and suggested I worked the first couple of hours from home, then work 3 to 4 hours at the office and then work the rest of the day from home so I could beat the rush hour to have some privacy to put in some uninterrupted time building and updating the customer support database. The hours I spent at the office were all tied up with meetings. I was averaging 50 hours a week to keep up with upper management expectation. After 6 months of this with no additional help and only a cost of living raise I got the attention of my boss when I applied for a field service position. He asked me why I would do that and I told him that was the only position that paid for the hours beyond 40 that got paid. I got a raise with an intern and another assistant PM to help me.
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