Amazon CEO reportedly told remote employees: “It’s probably not going to work out”
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Andy Jassy reportedly isn’t letting up on return to the office requirements.

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.

  • Vash63@lemmy.worldEnglish
    57·
    1 year ago

    That’s one way to thin your workforce after you overhired for the covid boom.

  • Skies5394@lemmy.mlEnglish
    41·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • user_AW11@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        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)

  • bean@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • ShittyRedditWasBetter@lemmy.worldEnglish
      46·
      1 year ago

      Yeah Amazon is both a danger to society killing of small businesses left and right, while also being run by an incompetent idiot like the former CEO of AWS, clearly a struggling wing of Amazon.

      Really, take 20 seconds to evaluate the absurdity of your comments before posting.

  • WilliamTheWicked@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    Holy crap. He seriously has the most punchable looking face I’ve seen in months.

    I am just so damn sick of every CEO.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Thousands of workers signed a petition against the mandate and staged a walkout in response.

    In a recording of the meeting obtained by Insider, Jassy told workers, “It’s past the time to disagree and commit,” adding that “if you can’t disagree and commit… it’s probably not going to work out for you at Amazon because we are going back to the office at least three days a week.”

    The Verge reached out to Amazon with a request for comment but didn’t immediately hear back.

    On top of ongoing layoffs, Amazon has been cracking down on employees who refuse to return to the office.

    In July, leaked messages seen by Insider suggested that Amazon would force a “voluntary resignation” on employees who don’t relocate to the in-person hubs where their teams work while others just began quitting on their own.

    The company has also started sending warnings to workers about their in-person attendance, according to Insider.

    The original article contains 286 words, the summary contains 155 words. Saved 46%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

    • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.