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Amazon Makes It Harder for Disabled Employees to Work from Home

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283 points belter | 3 comments | 13 Nov 24 21:16 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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0xbadcafebee ◴[13 Nov 24 22:34 UTC] No.42130943[source]▶
I just don't understand why Amazon hates its employees so much. These are the people making you billions and billions of dollars. And their jobs very clearly do not require them to work in an office, nor does it sap productivity, as years of experience and multiple studies confirm. And people could previously work in the office if they wanted to, so it's not like anyone was alienated before.

It's like the execs are just sadists. There's no upside.

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1. bitmasher9 ◴[13 Nov 24 22:52 UTC] No.42131112[source]▶
Employees are a resource to extract the value from in the most cost efficient method possible.
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2. iLoveOncall ◴[13 Nov 24 23:03 UTC] No.42131194[source]▶
Yes but even from this point of view, 5 days of RTO doesn't make any sense: it's much cheaper and much more efficient to have people working their own home than from an expensive office, and people are massively more productive at home overall.
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3. no_wizard ◴[14 Nov 24 00:45 UTC] No.42131919[source]▶
The only thing that trumps good decision making is ego.

I suspect a non zero amount of this is ego driven, be it either from middle management to upper management or c-suite need to exert some control.

I can't for the life of me figure out why otherwise. Especially organizations that are clearly still demonstrating success. They don't have the supporting metrics for this and they know, and the employees know it, and by some extension, the public knows it now too.