Comment on Amazon is making its employees come back to the office five days a week

transientpunk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Tech employees hired remotely during the pandemic are now stuck: they either must change everything about their lives to go into the office (mind you, they were full remote when hired) or they must find a new job in a super competitive area (made competitive by suits laying off employees elsewhere). Seriously, remote tech jobs get hundreds if not thousands of applicants per listing.

  Those people are fucked.

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  • Bob_Robertson_IX@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Oh, don’t worry about upper management, they can continue to work remotely - but they’ll still have dedicated offices in several locations in case they are forced to travel. And that will be one less office for the schmucks who have to come into the office.

    And this isn’t just Amazon. This is an orchestrated push by the CEOs of many large companies, all conspiring together to claw back some control of their employees. And you’ll do it because fuck you, of course you’ll do it… what choice have you got?

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• BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  While that makes sense in big cities, in more rural areas Amazon either bought out or bankrupted all competition, so there are no job alternatives.

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Not a lot of rural engineering jobs at Amazon.

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    • BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You are correct. I got distracted and forgot that the article was talking about office work.

      In this case, non-competes prevent people from quitting and switching the job. Also, people forget, that a lot of office workers moved to live outside the city center after the pandemic, so now having to commute is a lot more than mere inconvenience.

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