Amazon workers are revolting against returning to the office because they are mostly a bunch of people with no social skills. Please be understanding because they need to be taught to socialize all over again.
Once they feel good about three days a week you can layer on an extra day and then ultimately they can be back five days a week.
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@1ews is probably thinking of the Uighurs in China as examples "elsewhere in the word" of "happy" workers
We could call the towns where workers lived "Pullman"! As a cool side benefit layoffs would come with an eviction!
Crapitalist paradise!
What we need as a nation is company housing built right next to the company facilities. Then you can work 5 days a week and have zero commute and lots of time with your family. Workers would have all obstacles removed and would be very very happy. Isn’t this system being done elsewhere in the world today and they are all happy and having fun.
This is a more friendlier reminder from your WALMART HR partner to tell you to reunite with your WALMART colleagues - they're all working from home!
People aren't afraid, your premise is incorrec.
People know the efficiencies of WFH significantly improve their work productivity, AND their home life. Anyone dismissing these factors so easily is not being honest.
That's not to say that WFH works for everyone, but again your ppremise of being afraid is factually incorrect.
Any pollution while commuting is offset by the synergies you will create with your Amazon family, thus increasing our ESG score.
Do you get anything out of actually being with coworkers in the same physical space? I agree that the company people are not your family. They are sometimes not nice when they lay you off. Also within a few months after you walk out the door you will be forgotten unless you go out of the way to keep in touch. Even keeping in touch you are still an outsider and can’t do much with work only relationships after that point.
Have you thought about just being a contractor and forgoing benefits and the requirement to answer to any one set of bosses? Then you could have it your way.
Yes, I'm really going to work on my social skills while I'm stuck in traffic wasting time that would be better served doing something more important than polluting the air. I won't be lectured by some corporate shill. Amazon is not my family - they are my employer. My last corporate "family" laid me off. I get plenty of social skills on Chime and WebEx which I'm on every day. Covid has not gone anywhere either. This is all about trust. They don't trust us to do our work remotely.
This is a friendly reminder from your HR partner to tell you to reunite with your Amazon family.
Waste of time and money to be in the office. $3K/yr commute, $9K/yr daycare, car accidents, COVID. Exact same work can be done at home better. Lots of social skills on Zoom, Webex, Chime. One day a week is too much to waste.
Andrew Jassy has become Amazon's official pariah along with his P&L failure. He should step down.
Nah u are just a loser with company kool aid so far up your a-s, you have the need to be validated oher men in suits.
Employee just realize that they can perfectly do their work at home. They can avoid the commute time. They can wake up later. And sleep later. That means much more for their social life. Work is not a social circle. People with brain knows that work is just work. You do the job and u are gone. True social life is outside of work
But employers realize that they cannot control workers and force them to fake smile remotely. Managers realize they are mostly useless when they can boss people around and watch over them. Employers want the power back
But uncle hOw WoUlD i kNoW tHeY R reAlly WoRkInG aT hOmE? Everything should be quantitative? If you cannot measure your employee output, management is doing a sh---y job. How many calls you answer this month? How many ticket get solved? How many deployment to production? Can you successfully join my meetings?
Employers get you to come to office and have a meeting on skype with half of your team in London? Wtf. We could be home and have the same meeting id--t