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@amydiehl I heard from a former Amazon employee they just postponed mandatory RTO because they realized they don't actually have enough office space.

@rejinl @amydiehl I’m not surprised by this, a lot of places were moving to remote work or at least hybrid for most employees before COVID. Now that remote work has become “a thing” and associated with a low-key labor rebellion during COVID they are panicking.

@amydiehl Plus. most Amazon teams are globally distributed. So there's only a limited face time you have with your colleagues.

@amydiehl @blogdiva it's never been about collaboration, it's 100% about justifying the billions they've invested in real estate that they now can't unload because the world realized office buildings are terrible.

@amydiehl @blogdiva what's wild to me is that the shareholders are stupid enough to fall for it instead of holding management responsible for making bad decisions (or, y'know, understanding that circumstances change and you just have to take losses sometimes).

Instead they take it out on the #labor.

The system's propensity to perpetuate itself is just ... mind blowing. Frustrating. Depressing.

@tim @amydiehl @blogdiva “The shareholders” are basically Jeff, Vanguard, and other institutional investors that will follow his lead. The rest of the shareholders don’t have much of a chance for forcing accountability.

@seanb @amydiehl @blogdiva fair point. And don't forget "the algorithms" that actually drive who knows what percentage of trading these days.

@amydiehl In this age of technology most of the conversations held are remotely with team members. Whether that remote interaction is done on company premises or in the comfort of the worker's home office shouldn't be an issue. There are more negatives to on premise work environment as it stands. Ask on premise workers if they feel the office temp is to their liking, the restrooms clean enough, the breakroom experience like their own kitchen? And no one likes a camping Carl at their desk.