Leaked messages show Amazon will force a ‘voluntary resignation’ on employees failing to relocate near their team ‘hubs’::undefined

  • redcalcium@lemmy.instituteEnglish
    20·
    1 year ago

    Amazon started enforcing its so-called “return-to-hub” policy in recent weeks, according to an internal email and Slack messages obtained by Insider. Hubs are the central locations assigned to each individual team — employees will have to work out of those hubs instead of any office nearest to their current city.

    Amazon assigned offices for most individual employees, but not the whole team. Some employees told Insider that made office work pointless because many still had to use video calls to connect with their teammates spread across the country.

    Why does Amazon even bother to do this? Why force their employees back to office if they’ll going to work remotely with their distributed team anyway? Why not save money on office space by letting those employees to work from their home?

    • SocializedHermit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      Why not save money on office space by letting those employees to work from their home?

      Because they can’t control them at home.

      • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        1 year ago

        I’ve never felt more under control by the company I worked for than when my team was all on a Slack channel even though we were all WFH.

        • FunkFactory@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Just curious, how does being in a Slack channel feel more like being controlled than being in an office?

          • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            The project we were working on required all members to be available to answer questions from other team members right away and this happened a lot, so you couldn’t just wander off and do something else around the house or your absence would be immediately noticeable. At the office it was easy to disappear into the bathroom for awhile or take a nap in the sick room or head down to the food court in the basement of the building.

    • azdood85@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      1 year ago

      They bought a ton of real estate over the years.

      Then places like Seattle were literally falling a part without the added cash cow of commuters stuck in bumper to bumper traffic for 16 hours of a workday.

      • 5BC2E7@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Why is that a concern for amazon?

        They already know wfh is as good or even better for productivity. This doesn’t see like a move in their best interest

      • TurboDiesel@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        And that commercial real estate is the backing for a LOT of corporate debt. I imagine they’re afraid of the collateral against which that debt was borrowed collapsing in value.

    • Saneless@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Control. Why do republican men tell women how to live their lives when it doesn’t change their own?

      Some of the same insecure power hungry losers are high up managers in these companies

    • Matt Shatt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      My employer is trying to do this too and using the same logic. I’ll just have to report to an office to video chat my team. Luckily my boss and I are in agreement and until they somehow force both of us, I won’t be doing it. I will, however, be updating my resume.

    • Chaotic Entropy@feddit.ukEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      You’re a 1 on a sheet, if you stand in the way of resource allocation then they can find another 1. Welcome to the delightful world of big business.