Amazon is blocking promotions of employees who don't comply with RTO policy
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Amazon is blocking promotions of employees who don't comply with RTO policy
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#2I suppose that's Amazon's prerogative, but wow, they're really hanging out the "please recruit from our employee base" sign.
I mean, if you were hiring, you'd be well advised to try and poach folks from Amazon right now.
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#4Unfortunately, Amazon tends to be the "Employee Relations Bad Ideas Incubator" for the rest of the tech industry, at least BigTech. Fully expect other companies to copycat this.
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#5Amazon is infamous for treating employees poorly. The label “PIP factory” started with Amazon. Yet, thousands of people flock to them for jobs. You can’t really blame Amazon at this point, they’ll use all the leverage they have because they know they can.
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#6At the end of the day the counter to this is starting and building companies with remote work forces. If remote work truly is equal to or superior to in office work then you should be able to out compete in the long term using this competitive advantage.
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#7At the end of the day the counter to this is starting and building companies with remote work forces. If remote work truly is equal to or superior to in office work then you should be able to out compete in the long term using this competitive advantage.
Yes; unfortunately the counter to that is economies of scale, network effects, and cost of financing, all of which big established companies like Amazon have. If you're going to compete against Amazon, you can't be merely their equal.
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#8Someone should put together a handy list of all these companies with RTO policies, with metadata about which ones have abused it to force people to leave, and which ones have forced it on people hired into remote positions.
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#9Refusing to promote? I had to leave my employer entirely because I didn't want to work from an office where none of my team was.
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#10It is very interesting to unfold the next chapter in this power struggle between employers and employees. So far one thing is clear: senior staff in general is tending towards WFH. There are exceptions of course but the tendency is clear. In my niche, on job boards the top-paid positions are all WFH. The reason is clear: if you really want to have the best people and keep them for long, you not only pay them well but there is also mutual respect.