Over 500 Amazon workers decry "non-data-driven" logic for 5-day RTO policy

10 points by jaimebuelta 8 months ago | 12 comments
  • paulcole 8 months ago
    I mean let's get real. If there was data that said the team was going to be X% more productive in office these 500 people would find another reason to hate the decision or say the data was bogus.

    It's fine to love remote work and it's fine to love in-office work. But one isn't inherently right and one isn't inherently wrong.

    • angoragoats 8 months ago
      > one isn't inherently right and one isn't inherently wrong

      While I agree that's true in a vacuum, the situation here is different. There are people who signed on to work for Amazon assuming that remote work would be an option, and now the deal is being changed unilaterally with (apparently) no compensation to the formerly-remote employees, and no valid data-driven reason.

      THAT is wrong.

      • paulcole 8 months ago
        Yes, that is how at-will employment works — or contracted employment where the employer calls the shots.

        The employees knew this going in whether they admit it to themselves or not.

        It still doesn’t make the change wrong.

        • angoragoats 8 months ago
          Thank you, I understand what at-will employment is. I’m not even considering whether it’s legally wrong, so at-will employment isn’t relevant to my argument. I don’t really believe you were referencing legal wrongness either, in your original comment.

          My argument is that it’s morally wrong, because Amazon’s actions are causing real financial and/or emotional harm to the employees, as outlined in the article.