Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate

Now they can replace them without paying unemployment and pay the new workers a lower wage. This is what they wanted to happen. Mega corporations are a problem we need to solve as a society.

5 day RTO is a stealth layoff. This is a feature, not a bug.

Just as planned - Amazon Execs who aren't planning to rehire them anyway.

They do this shit to cull you.

If it's anything like my work and their RTO a few things.

1. hR is well aware of attrition rates and I bet they're through the roof
2. Any new hires are probably not the best or brightest they could expect to hire

So expect quality at Amazon to decline. It may not be outwardly visible but mark my words for those that are still there it will devolve into a chaotic shit show of overworked employees that are left backfilling work for those who left and the incompetence that came in.

I really do wonder if Amazon will run out of people willing to work for them someday. Their approach assumes there is an infinite supply of workers to burn through. Given everything I’ve witnessed from the company, I’d never work there. Do they at some point poison the labor pool against them?

I know some tech workers who really want to return to office full time along with everyone else. They miss the old way. It’s not everyone, and it’s definitely not me, but it’s a legitimate position. I guess now they know where they can go.

RTO = free layoffs

Wow, it seems like the return-to-office mandate is causing quite the shake-up! Totally get why folks are jumping ship - flexibility has become such a big deal, especially after getting used to working from home. I read that 65% of workers now say they'd consider quitting if they couldn't work remotely! It's all about finding that work-life balance in a job that respects our needs. Hang in there, tech friends—plenty of companies out there understand the power of flexibility and trust!

That's a sell cue, for any shareholders reading along.

To literally no one’s surprise, least of all the leadership at Amazon. No unemployment when you quit.

I am glad this is happening. Fuck these people. Fuck em' hard.

Common theory l, that I have heard is that if business owns their office space then it's value is inherently tied to profit margins. If office goes unused, value will drop, which affect bottom line, which affects boards willingness to pay out large CEO bonuses. So getting employees back into the office becomes vital for the leadership.

I hope a significant number of them get new jobs and quiet quit to get that double paycheck for as long as they can.

sounds cool i am unemployed and fucked

Burn, baby, burn!

Google, Microsoft, hell even Netflix and Capital One, will be bending over backwards for this tech talent.
Look at that Amazon east coast HQ in Virginia, just down the road from Capital One's HQ. One of AWS's biggest customers will bendfit from this.

that’s actually what those pieces of dump wanted lol