Thread regarding Amazon.com layoffs

Amazon should sell off offices

Amazon is desperate to stop burning their cash (which they've been irresponsibly doing for 2 years now!). However, layoffs are usually a last resort before other expense reductions. Meanwhile Amazon has been sitting on so much underutilized property over the last few years. They should sell off offices, break leases at a short-term loss, and then consider more layoffs to low performing business units. And then revise their hiring strategy to focus on quality versus quantity.

Exactly, @2ibq+1m8V1z8M.

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Well, it doesn't take a pure genius to decide to quit a bad situation than let it continue. How about that? A nomination isn't as much of a guarantee as is quitting. Hey, if enough people quit, HR can just nominate itself - all time expense reduction!

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The S(ad)-team structure is also a huge impediment - about 3 dozen of the most senior (extremely overpaid) officers (out of 1.5M employees) in a HUGE echo chamber with zero transparency or desire to discuss specific plans/changes with their reports (and the rest of Amazon). Do you honestly think that all 3 dozen members of the S-team genuinely believe in EVERYTHING in Jassy's strategy? I kid you not - they certainly don't, but they appease his data-lacking views to keep their yacht-worthy entitled jobs. Sad life.

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Let's pretend you have 60,000 Software Engineers/Architects/Consultants, 10,000 Hardware Engineers, 20,000 junior-to-mid-level Managers at Amazon. Does Amazon really need to keep burning cash to pay rent on 100-120 offices to house ALL 90,000 of those employees (which many offices aren't equipped to do) especially if they were barely in those offices for the past 2-3 years? What is SO critical that those employees fail to do remotely? Riffing? Whiteboarding? Please! There are apps for that. Same thing for physical stores - massive burning of cash when there are already online stores.

Forcing across the board employee departures (through RTO) and 'reactive' layoffs (to cover up for your planning mistakes) will reduce expenses short-term, however it will also introduce significant side effects: knowledge gaps, impaired productivity, need for org changes, which, at the least, will produce more expenses, lost time, lack of engagement. Dumping stale property, physical stores, 'obsolete' business units achieves expense reduction without those side effects.

Jassy, why shoot yourself in the foot to save a few dollars? You're doing it all wrong. Microsoft was smart - they closed their physical stores. So can you!

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