I have been working from home for 10 years. My wife recently had a baby and I wish I had an office to go to...
I was remote pre-pandemic and it's much harder with a toddler than it was without a toddler.
Amazon plans to ‘return to an office-centric culture as our baseline’
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#42I plan to remain in an home office centric culture as my baseline after pandemic.
I'm not optimistic about my chances remaining in home office.
Did you bring it up with your manager? How about your colleagues. You can significantly affect your chances by talking about it, making clear that you see this as a major benefit (that doesn't cost the company a dime and, in fact, opens up for saving money on office rent), and highlighting that you can be as productive at home as you can in the office, if that's actually the case of course :)
Several of us where I work have been doing this over the past year, and in my last conversation with my manager I got approval for working from home permanently even after the restrictions are pulled back. It's hard to say for sure, but I don't think I would have gotten the same answer if we hadn't been very clear and vocal about our preferences. And of course it helps that the company outperformed its pre-COVID19 projections :)
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#43Lol when you're an amazon employee and find out on hacker news. I must say, the communication during covid hasn't been great internally
Maybe it went through US-East-1?
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#44Amazon 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.
Am I misremembering, or did Reed Hastings not say something similar last year?
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
> am i the only person excited about this If they'd announced people could optionally return to the office, then yeah maybe be excited about it. But are you excited they're going to force your co-workers to return even if they don't want to? Why?
I’m not in GP’s boat (I unexpectedly love WFH), but if part of what I miss is the effectiveness of shared analog whiteboard discussions, those are hard if you’re the only one at the whiteboard.
Right I'm pointing out that being glad everyone is being forced back into the office against their will is being glad that other people's happiness is being sacrificed for your own. Which doesn't sound so great when you say it like that.
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#48Lol when you're an amazon employee and find out on hacker news. I must say, the communication during covid hasn't been great internally
I got an email yesterday and it was reforwarded by my skip level manager. I’m surprised you wouldn’t get it.
Maybe you were supposed to reforward it to the other person.
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#49am i the only person excited about this (i dont work at amazon) im pretty burned out on wfh
> am i the only person excited about this If they'd announced people could optionally return to the office, then yeah maybe be excited about it. But are you excited they're going to force your co-workers to return even if they don't want to? Why?
I don’t care how people do their focus time, and I’m fine with Zoom for broadcast/presentation style meetings, but I’m excited to have my coworkers physically present again when we’re discussing and troubleshooting things together. Zoom fatigue is real, latency kills interactive conversation, and the avatars on my screen are at this point pretty disconnected from the real people I once knew.
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#50Lol when you're an amazon employee and find out on hacker news. I must say, the communication during covid hasn't been great internally
Join #amazon-remote on Slack ;-)