Why don't CEOs understand it is a new world?

Why don't CEOs understand that the world has changed? Hr is always looking at generational changes and how to attract new talent and retain superstars.

Listen to your workers. If you don't, you will get apathetic employees who do less than the bare minimum. Amzn will destroy their own company from within. RTO will create a resentment and yield lower productivity by a bunch of clockwatchers.

There is a certain type of person that excels in the office, which we have all witnessed for decades. It is the middle-aged white man with a wife that cares for the kids. Since they tend to be C-level, they cannot comprehend the day-to-day obstacles that common folks face.

When you return to work, if you are able afford a home, it takes up large % of your take home. Have kids? More than one and your childcare costs can exceed your mortgage. Everything else goes to bills so nothing really left over or goes to debt. Increased gas and food and other costs accompany it.

And time? You are losing an additional 4 hours a day with prep/driving. You will get home, have to cook. Spend 30 minutes quality time with the kids if you are lucky.

So, make it worth our while if we are trading in 30% of our salary and almost 25% of our day. Increase our salry to cover increased costs, preferably enough so our significant other can stay at home. Give us 3 or 4 day weeks so we can use that lost time with the family and recharging and catching up on life.

Not willing to reimburse us for our increased expenses or lost time? I can imagine the type of workers you will have.

It is a new day. Find more innovative solutions rather than trying to go back in time. Want to motivate an employee? Pay for their housing, private school, vacations. Give them more rather than take take take. Want to build creative teams? Create a lifestyle that produces relaxed and recharged employees rather than the burnt out disgruntled ones that get stuck in traffic everyday and are luving paycheck to paycheck and giving up their time with loved ones.

CEOS don't get it because their pay and lifestyle aren't relateable. One of their bonus checks could support several generations for one family.

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Things will get much worse before they get better. Amazon is definitely not in a spending mode now, especially to motivate employees. In fact, their job offers have decreased compensation levels across the board. The main problem is a combination of the senior leadership (40-45%) and a lot of really bad hires (20-30%). The only care is the NASDAQ!

Think about it... Amazon only has a 3-year return of 17%, compared to Microsoft at 52%, Apple at 63%, Meta at 75%, Walmart at 77%. Is it really worth working at Amazon? So they're encouraging employees to leave...

the leaders have created a self-perpetuating cycle downward. word of mouth negative publicity for potential employees and businesses/customers. time for the new disrupter to enter to provide a better alternative for everybody. these big biz take too much from business owners and charge higher than competitors to customers anyways. now the cr-p has reached the employees who make the whole joke work. let the mediocre work here.

Sure they understand it's a new world. Regardless, Jassy and Olsavsky are just trying to do every dirty trick possible to manipulate their financial statements to artificially scale free cashflow, super aggressively lower expenses, and wow investors after relatively flat market performance, poor revenue growth. They want employees to depart in droves regardless of 'all star' status, because Amazon can get mediocre employees for cheap (including foreign labor, outsourcing) and repeat. Also remember that Jassy isn't Bezos.

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Top talent will leave or should leave. You have put in your time and now have Amazon on your resume. In 5 years, Amazon on your resume won't hold as much weight. Use that to your advantage.

lol, it's companies like this that reinforce the idea that being a parent isn't important. look at the horrendous things kids are doing in the news nowadays. if you work for companies that don't respect you or your time, better NOT to breed as your absence (being in the office) can create the next child disaster. RTO is a joke.

This company has forgotten its roots.

The top talent of Amazon should get together and create a new company "Virago" (first synonym that came up via Google :) ).

It can be a company that provides better profits for the businesses by taking less, better service/lower costs for customers, better conditions for employees (remote, or better pay/growth path for employees).

Yes, amazon doesn't care or even attempt to look like they care about their employees. When companies are so black and white, they have hidden agendas. They want you to leave. It is the companies way of sc--wing you over by pushing you out the door and not paying severance.

Once the population problem becomes more apparent things will change. When people choose not to have kids and there is no replacement workers things will get crazy and these businesses will feel it and be forced to change luke other countries. When other countries look at the US and feel bad for our working conditions you know something is wrong!!!!

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