Employees know that and plenty of them will leave. They will also find tons of companies that don’t implement archaic policies that only exist to justify real estate investments. Amazon is going to hit a point where the pool of available talent is thin because no one wants to work there, or already has and left because of how toxic it is.
I’ve never heard a single positive comment about being a dev at Amazon. Not one. Every dev I know that has worked there said it was a hellscape.
It’s actually still baffling to see companies like AWS and Zoom, who arguably are all about enabling remote work, go with mandates like that. But yeah, it’s probably a stealth layoff, except they’re going to lose their best employees.
No bub, you need to fire them and give them severance pay.
This will just be the way layoffs go from now on. Don’t quit. Just keep working from home while looking for another job until they fire you.
Talk about saying the quiet part out loud - this is a severance-free layoff, nothing more and nothing less.
Weird that it wouldn’t ve viewed as constructive dismissal
It is constructive dismissal. Really it is a layoff but they want to get people to quit first because that is better for the company. But the American legalized labor system is very employer-friendly when it comes to enforcement. Often an employer can just lie, even when documentation contradicts them, and a judge or other official will simply side with the employer’s narrative.
At the end of the day, labor power is always about material leverage. Don’t believe the companies or the caoitakist government system that say it is based on the rules they state.
Ironic that a company which only exists because it offers remote access to computer servers is forcing employees to physically go to the office.
