Jeff Bezos: Work-Life Balance Is 'Debilitating Phrase'
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Jeff Bezos: Work-Life Balance Is 'Debilitating Phrase'
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#2> Bezos said his new hires should stop trying to find "balance" within their professional and personal lives since that implies a strict trade-off between the two. Instead, Bezos envisions a more holistic relationship between work and life outside the office.
If those are his views it certainly doesn't reflect in Amazon's actions. For example why did Amazon first try to get everyone back in the office? It was only after a backlash they allowed for a meager 2 days of work from home.
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#3Jeff Bezos is more insufferable than Larry Ellison. We should all be proud of his accomplishment.
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#4Easy to say when you’re there’s no stack ranking for your position. He’s created a super competitive culture that makes his working habits impossible for anyone else at Amazon.
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#5It's much easier talk about integrating life and work and shun compartmentalization of work when you see much more direct returns from the output of your work/not work, rather than having a fixed salary.
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#7He should perhaps publish stats of staff turnaround and regrettable attrition. How long does an average junior hire last? Its easy to be happy at work when your bathroom breaks are not counted and timed.
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#8There is no substance to what he was quoted as saying in this article. What does he mean by it being a 'circle' ? I think work life balance is more of a dodecahedron.
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#9> Instead, Bezos envisions a more holistic relationship between work and life outside the office.
Unfortunately, this appears to mean that employees have to be available 24/7 for work for the rest of their lives. There is a way that employees can be freed of this by means of manumission [0], but this generally requires that they have a lot of money.
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#10The more Bezos opens his mouth, the more he sounds like he wants to be neo robber baron.