Notice sent to employees who were not in office at least three times a week, after other tech firms’ efforts to get workers back on site
Some staff members were alerted on Wednesday they were “not currently meeting our expectation of joining your colleagues in the office at least three days a week”, according to emails shared with the Financial Times. The emails were also discussed on the anonymous corporate message board platform Blind.
Amazon will discover what the rest of the market discovered, that unless they’re paying a big premium, employees will just go somewhere else. This is the real reason the VC types have been wishcasting a recession: with an unemployment rate that starts with “3” companies don’t have as much leverage as they’d like
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Amazon will discover what the rest of the market discovered, that unless they’re paying a big premium, employees will just go somewhere else. This is the real reason the VC types have been wishcasting a recession: with an unemployment rate that starts with “3” companies don’t have as much leverage as they’d like
Sounds like we’re due for a bipartisan bill to solve this by bailing out the in-person companies with money from the remote companies.