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Amazon AWS CEO: Quit if you don't want to return to office (www.reuters.com)

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One of Amazon's (AMZN.O) top executives defended the new, controversial 5-day-per-week in-office policy on Thursday, saying those who do not support it can leave for another company.

Speaking at an all-hands meeting for AWS, unit CEO Matt Garman said nine out of 10 workers he has spoken with support the new policy, which takes effect in January, according to a transcript reviewed by Reuters.

Those who do not wish to work for Amazon in-office five days per week can quit, he suggested.

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[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

How would that work? People are just going to stay home in front of a disconnected PC and somehow not get fired?

[–] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 27 points 3 weeks ago

Institutional inertia is real. Obviously every situation is different but in most cases they are not blocking remote access, they're just tracking if you badged in that day. If you are still doing work, it's going to take them awhile to respond - they are hoping you quit rather than having to fire you.

[–] bork@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Why would the PC be disconnected?

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

If the company doesn't want you to work from home they're not going to let you connect to their system.

[–] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 weeks ago

That's constructive dismissal

[–] bork@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They want people in the office, but they still want people to be able to work when they're at home too. No shot RTO comes with blocking remote access to corp systems, or even prod for that matter.

How would oncalls be handled without it even?

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm guessing by going into the office haha.
Fuck'em.

[–] bork@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Oncall is usually a 24/7 type of thing, where speed is a major factor, and I doubt they would want to restrict oncall engineers to on-site only.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I'm not seeing anything about 24/7 on call workers. The article is about five days a week employees. Did I miss something?

[–] Sundial@lemm.ee 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Bork is saying a blanket ban on computers connecting remotely would not work in a company that has a huge operations department who need to be on-call.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Ok, I understand that. But I didn't say anything about either of those things.

[–] Sundial@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You kind of did?

Unless I'm misinterpreting your comment.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

I don't know what comment exactly you're referring to. So probably yes.
Nothing I've said has been complicated or profound.

[–] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Usually it's phased and they don't cut off remote access entirely. They still want you to be able to work on the weekend at home...