Lol when you're an amazon employee and find out on hacker news. I must say, the communication during covid hasn't been great internally
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#12am i the only person excited about this (i dont work at amazon) im pretty burned out on wfh
No, there are lots of extroverts who like social interaction in the workplace, and bad managers who think their main job is to observe and ensure butts-in-seats.
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#13can't whip workers to work harder while they're at home
It's also harder to trade on Robinhood when in the office.
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#14If companies had to pay even part of the externalities of commuting they'd have stopped this antiquated modus operandi long ago. As it stands I feel like we're going to have to wait until all Silent Generation/Boomers retire before we can see real progressive change in this area. Honestly it really speaks to poor management in general. If your only measure for project progress is "butts in seats," then you have no id…
It seems like that externality would be relatively straightforward to identify and de-incentivize. Just change the rules to allow workers to expense travel to their regular reporting location and then tax companies based on the total number above a certain floor.
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#15am i the only person excited about this (i dont work at amazon) im pretty burned out on wfh
I’m excited to go back to the office. I would be happy to never use zoom again.
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#16Lol when you're an amazon employee and find out on hacker news. I must say, the communication during covid hasn't been great internally
Don’t you guys have api’s for everything internal? ;)
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#17If companies had to pay even part of the externalities of commuting they'd have stopped this antiquated modus operandi long ago. As it stands I feel like we're going to have to wait until all Silent Generation/Boomers retire before we can see real progressive change in this area. Honestly it really speaks to poor management in general. If your only measure for project progress is "butts in seats," then you have no id…
I'm 28 and can't wait until I get back to the office. A lot of people like the social aspect of the job and not everybody decides to live a miserable commute away from their office
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#18Amazon seems to be bending over backward to prove they are a place no one should want to work. Not that working in an office is bad, but refusing to entertain a hybrid model, even a mild one, screams "we know best, our way or the highway" to employees.
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#19Lol when you're an amazon employee and find out on hacker news. I must say, the communication during covid hasn't been great internally
Same here >.I just went through my email to try to find a notice. Nope... nothing...
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#20Another reason not to work at Amazon.