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The German Works Council has blocked Amazon's performance reviews

29 points jerrryyy | 3 comments | 14 Jul 25 15:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.512s | source

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Managers are no longer allowed to rate their direct reports based in Germany, and it appears this is a permanent decision. Let’s see if Seattle weighs in.

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nine_zeros ◴[15 Jul 25 01:11 UTC] No.44566933[source]▶
Wow, finally someone had the balls to say that stack ranking and PIPing people like a meat grinder is inhuman.
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1. Ros23 ◴[15 Jul 25 05:01 UTC] No.44567956[source]▶
And Amazon will move those jobs to India. Mission accomplished. I'd argue that was the very original goal of all this. Worker Councils lineally shot themselves in the foot.
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2. giantg2 ◴[15 Jul 25 12:35 UTC] No.44570497[source]▶
So when do we start putting tariffs on imported code? If it's all just a shell game to move to the lowest paid and most abusive environment available, then working conditions will never really improve.
3. Adept-Hermanus ◴[15 Jul 25 12:36 UTC] No.44570504[source]▶
If those jobs could be moved to India, they would already be there. But you cannot run a fulfilment center one continent over. Or a competitive (EU data protection legislation compliant) datacenter.