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Leaked messages show Amazon will force a ‘voluntary resignation’ on employees failing to relocate near their team ‘hubs’::undefined

  • redcalcium@lemmy.instituteEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Amazon started enforcing its so-called “return-to-hub” policy in recent weeks, according to an internal email and Slack messages obtained by Insider. Hubs are the central locations assigned to each individual team — employees will have to work out of those hubs instead of any office nearest to their current city.

    Amazon assigned offices for most individual employees, but not the whole team. Some employees told Insider that made office work pointless because many still had to use video calls to connect with their teammates spread across the country.

    Why does Amazon even bother to do this? Why force their employees back to office if they’ll going to work remotely with their distributed team anyway? Why not save money on office space by letting those employees to work from their home?

    • azdood85@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      They bought a ton of real estate over the years.

      Then places like Seattle were literally falling a part without the added cash cow of commuters stuck in bumper to bumper traffic for 16 hours of a workday.

    • SocializedHermit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Why not save money on office space by letting those employees to work from their home?

      Because they can’t control them at home.

      • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
        01·
        1 year ago

        I’ve never felt more under control by the company I worked for than when my team was all on a Slack channel even though we were all WFH.