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Amazon Makes It Harder for Disabled Employees to Work from Home

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283 points belter | 4 comments | 13 Nov 24 21:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.62s | source
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no_wizard ◴[13 Nov 24 21:45 UTC] No.42130354[source]▶
For a company that is supposedly data driven like Amazon likes to tout, they have zero data that RTO would provide the benefits they claim[0]. They even admitted as much[1].

I wouldn't be shocked if one day some leaked memos or emails come to light that prove it was all about control and/or backdoor layoffs, despite their PR spin that it isn't (what competent company leader would openly admit this?)

[0]: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/over-500-amazon-...

[1]: https://fortune.com/2023/09/05/amazon-andy-jassy-return-to-o...

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ChumpGPT ◴[13 Nov 24 22:37 UTC] No.42130967[source]▶
1000's of H1B's from India will work, sleep, and live at AMZN 24x7x365. Most folks are competing with this and it is happening across the industry.

Junk away...

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1. alephnerd ◴[13 Nov 24 22:39 UTC] No.42130993[source]▶
No need to be racist when you could have just said that it's a competitive hiring market.
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3. ChumpGPT ◴[13 Nov 24 23:54 UTC] No.42131574[source]▶
Not at all, just stating the facts.
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4. AbstractH24 ◴[14 Nov 24 11:43 UTC] No.42135266[source]▶
How does return to office solve this? Particularly for anything not customer facing.

We’ve proven that large amounts of work can be shifted to companies with lower COL, so why not do it? The question of if those workers work from their homes or offices is secondary at that point.