I know someone who fled Seattle and moved totally out of state for another job because he lived in the city and had to commute by bus to avoid high parking fees.
The problem with the city buses—homeless people doing their business on the bus.
He just had enough—and bailed.
Once folks have had a taste of working at home they may commute for a while but they will have those resumes out there—and the good ones will get snatched away.
It will be a slow bleed for Amazon.
By the time they figure out what happened it will be too late.
I would just cut compensation for remote working employees, say 20% less, or come into the office and keep the same pay scale.
Fire them all.....................
Some how these people think a job is a right.
If you can do all your work from home you are easy to replace and aren’t worth much.
I needed a laboratory and had to do hands on work as an engineer.
I could at times work from home, but most of the time I had the be physically on site for example on top of a 14,000 volcano.
I have no pity for work at home people making $100,000 a year just typing
When Elon started stepping away from the democrat plantation, negative newspaper stories became common.
Now that Bezos has stepped on the Washington Post’s fat egos, negative stories about Amazon will become more common.
That’s how democrat’s roll... they’re thin skinned thugs.
Amazon should institute a "pay at risk" or performance-based incentive/bonus system that sets annual performance goals for the enterprise (e.g., share price, ROCE, etc.), for each major department (e.g., budget, profit/cost center goals, etc.), and for each division/team (e.g., projects delivered on-time/on budget, budget/cost metrics, etc.), with bonus percents of salary attached to each level.
At the end of the year, each employee receives the percent of salary for each level of metric that has been achieved. If teams miss their goals and do not receive their associated incentive pay, then they have only themselves to look for reasons why. If teams that work 5 days in the office are meeting their performance goals while teams that work-from-home do not, then team peer pressure will drive performance norms for the following year.
-PJ
Seems to me more and more US workers are acting like spoiled children about working from home. Maybe what those CEOs should do is say “The salary you’re paid will be whatever portion the number of work days you are here divided by five days time the salary you were hired in at”.
The remedy is that they receive salary for the amount of work processed and not for hours worked.
AWS doesn't give a damn about "productivity" or "company culture." If they did, they never would have sent these people to work from home in the first place back in 2020.
AWS is downsizing ... and this is an effective way to do it without paying severance or running up unemployment insurance claims.
If anyone can’t handle coming to the office, quit and find a different job. Problem solved. Who do they think they are anyway?
Sounds like the tail is trying to wag the dog, but the dog is having none of it.
My guess: Amazon will prevail.
And I agree at this point.