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.
“9 out of 10 workers support the policy” he decided to imagine and then say out loud
Let them enforce it. Don’t quit, that’s what they are trying to accomplish anyway.
Or just skip ahead and unionize.
Both things should be done simultaneously!
Along with eating the CEO with a side of Jeff Bezos
RTO was always lay-off without compensation
Would really suck if people said “fuck it”, did return to work but intentionally decreased productivity. Best to get laid off than quit.
Amazon policy is to stack rank all of its employees and regularly fire anyone in the bottom tranche. So any kind of deliberate slowdown would need to be incredibly well-coordinated. Even then, there would inevitably be a ton of attrition as the automatic Fire Everyone triggers started kicking in.
Its not enough to play by the rules with a company as vast and encompassing as Amazon. You need to take it a step further and start sabotaging the anti-organizing functions of the company. Start shoving monkey wrenches in the employee monitoring systems. Start dismantling the automation that allows the business to function at such a breakneck pace. You’ve got to get in there and break the machine before it breaks you.
Sometimes union take actions that are less severe than outright striking:
“ceo of cloud company says employees must work on premise.”
must do wonders for the marketing of the capability of their platform.
CEO Matt Garman said nine out of 10 workers he has spoken with support the new policy
Got news for you, Matt. 9 out of 10 workers are kissing your ass.
More likely it’s an outright lie.
I’m willing to believe he asked ten of his VPs and nine of them agreed with him. Also, that he’s currently looking to fill a newly opened tenth position.
This lines up with their marked decrease in service quality. Azure is eating AWS’ lunch.
This was always what he intended. Get people to quit instead of paying redundancy when he has to reduce the work force. Classic stuff done by many big orgs over the years. Make the place shit to work at and people quit for you.
Good for the market i guess, since mostly people who have it easy tho find a new job (highly qualified) leave that way.
I beseech you god of Irony, make it so Amazon workers can vote him out of office.
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