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Leaked messages show Amazon will force a 'voluntary resignation' on employees failing to relocate near their team 'hubs' (archive.ph)

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

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[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 58 points 1 year ago (13 children)

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?

[–] SocializedHermit@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] FunkFactory@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just curious, how does being in a Slack channel feel more like being controlled than being in an office?

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The project we were working on required all members to be available to answer questions from other team members right away and this happened a lot, so you couldn't just wander off and do something else around the house or your absence would be immediately noticeable. At the office it was easy to disappear into the bathroom for awhile or take a nap in the sick room or head down to the food court in the basement of the building.

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