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Amazon Makes It Harder for Disabled Employees to Work from Home

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283 points belter | 6 comments | 13 Nov 24 21:16 UTC | HN request time: 1.26s | source | bottom
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linotype ◴[13 Nov 24 23:23 UTC] No.42131343[source]▶
Why do people keep working there? Like why not as a software engineer just refuse to work there?
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nfRfqX5n ◴[14 Nov 24 00:27 UTC] No.42131791[source]▶
Big vests coming up from the hiring boom in ‘20/21

I think people won’t start leaving until 2026 unless they change the policy

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1. AlotOfReading ◴[14 Nov 24 00:44 UTC] No.42131905[source]▶
And of course Amazon announced at the beginning of the year that anyone receiving a lot of equity is getting their cash bonus cut because the value of the equity grew faster than they anticipated.
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2. lesuorac ◴[14 Nov 24 01:22 UTC] No.42132164[source]▶
Isn't that an old policy?

I've always heard that if your stock appreciated a lot then you'd get smaller vests in the future to offset that.

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3. AlotOfReading ◴[14 Nov 24 02:23 UTC] No.42132520[source]▶
This isn't vesting adjustments, it's not getting raises and bonuses because of appreciation. It wasn't reported as an old policy: https://fortune.com/2024/03/27/amazon-no-cash-base-pay-raise...
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4. lesuorac ◴[14 Nov 24 19:57 UTC] No.42140488{3}[source]▶
Sure but it's long standing that Amazon considers stock appreciation as part of your compensation and if it exceeds the targeted appreciation they'll decrease your future compensation so it even outs.

To avoid doing any real math. Assume you get $100 and a targeted appreciation of 15% and the stock appreciated 30%. Then they're going to drop future compensation by $15 to even things out. This may feel unfair but its pretty well stated ahead of time (although who really understands RSUs out of college).

(2018) https://www.teamblind.com/post/BZhGVek5

(2022) https://old.reddit.com/r/FASCAmazon/comments/vdti7y/comment/...

(2024) https://old.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/1d6w01h/am...

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5. ycombinatrix ◴[15 Nov 24 02:43 UTC] No.42143520{4}[source]▶
Stock goes down? Too bad. Stock goes up? Too bad.
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6. lesuorac ◴[15 Nov 24 12:13 UTC] No.42146193{5}[source]▶
I'm not too sure there's much data on when the stock goes down.

There were some comments that Amazon said they'd make people whole in 2023 [1] but the stock is now above it's pre-2023 levels so if they did nothing people are whole.

It may very well be, stock goes down => oversized refresher; stock goes up => undersized refresher.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34889923