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Amazon Makes It Harder for Disabled Employees to Work from Home

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283 points belter | 1 comments | 13 Nov 24 21:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.311s | 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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changoplatanero ◴[13 Nov 24 21:46 UTC] No.42130377[source]▶
How would you even gather data to support this? You can't a/b test company culture.
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xyst ◴[13 Nov 24 21:52 UTC] No.42130452[source]▶
Let’s just ignore the quarterly employee feedback, historical performance records of employees before, during, and after COVID-19 lockdowns, business performance before, during , after COVID-19 lockdowns; and rates of attrition in across organizations and teams…

There is plenty of data to support why forced RTO makes no sense.

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1. not_a_bot_4sho ◴[14 Nov 24 05:07 UTC] No.42133314[source]▶
> There is plenty of data to support why forced RTO makes no sense.

It makes a lot of sense for property owners to enforce policies to maintain the value of their real estate.

I don't like it, but it makes sense.