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There's an uptick in Amazon employees quitting

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Re: There's an uptick in Amazon employees quitting

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How do you force someone to resign?

I heard that in Japan they will almost never fire someone, for various reasons. So when it's time to go there are stories of peoples desk being moved to the cupboard for example.

Or the added requirement to file additional TPM reports, possibly.

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One think I've always wondered about RTO measures is, can they force you to choose bewteen RTO or resign? Or to they have to fire you (and with that entitle you to whatever compensation you deserve)?

Depends entirely on you local labour laws and the contract you have signed with the company. If your local labour laws require compensation in cases of Constructive Dismissal, then you are entitled to some kind of severance package. If not, then it's possible your employment contract will have a clause for "in case of constructive dismissal we will pay X weeks based on employment length" or something. Maybe not likel…

In the US it’s called constructive discharge. Good luck convincing a judge that asking a $400k/yr employee to show up to the office is so unreasonable that you were forced to quit.

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Honestly a lot of these tax breaks are for local taxes so other than the county/city they are in, other than the local paper and the county courthouse I'm not sure if they have to be anywhere else.

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I understand the source of your name, I think.

Re: There's an uptick in Amazon employees quitting

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Can you share some examples of tax benefits they got? I'm imagining that the cost of keeping a office open far exceeds the tax benefits they would receive in return, and I doubt that local governments really track the frequency of how often workers are going into the office. Probably, having people attend the office "on paper" but with a low mandated frequency like 1 day a week would be enough to legally satisfy whichever agreements they made.

Re: There's an uptick in Amazon employees quitting

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Planned all along. Many roles were hired as remote, with then requiring people to relocate for RTO. Easiest way to downsize. The real reason for RTO is of course tax benefits that Amazon gets from local/state governments only if there are buts in seats in the office buildings (since people coming into the office means they are in the area which means that they spend money in local restaurants/shops, e.t.c)

Why is it so unbelievable that execs simply believe RTO is beneficial for their business?
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