Amazon Makes It Harder for Disabled Employees to Work from Home

Guys, calm down. It's a layoff. They are just lying about it because they want to spin it in the quarterly earnings report. Executives at Amazon aren't incorrectly drawing conclusions, and they aren't dumb as rocks

They're LYING.

> lying about it because they want to spin it in the quarterly earnings report

They're lying to employees, not investors. They don't want to pay severance.

Laying off disabled people seems pretty illegal. I don’t know.

Amazon is not known for obeying labor laws with any sort of regularity.

Workplace discrimination against disabled people is as at least as commonplace as it is illegal. The question is more how easy it would be to make the case against this kind of thing, rather than whether such a maneuver would be illegal in principle or in spirit.

Laying off people via wfh, irrespective of their disability seems to be pretty much in the vogue right now

Hence the lying