While Amazon claims the goal of RTO is to increase collaboration, survey finds many employees (45%) aren’t even assigned to the same office as their manager and 38% said they only worked alongside a fraction of their team members—either 20% or less.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91248618/exclusive-amazons-rto-policy-nearly-half-corporate-workers-looking-new-jobs
@amydiehl I heard from a former Amazon employee they just postponed mandatory RTO because they realized they don't actually have enough office space.
@amydiehl Plus. most Amazon teams are globally distributed. So there's only a limited face time you have with your colleagues.
@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.
@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.