Amazon WFH Policy

I’d guess that awkwardness is based on resentment from the office based staff rather than diminished social skills from the WFH staff.

Lets be honest though, the resistance to this is giving off the same sort of vibes that we hear of happening when unions fought to get weekends off, and upper management screamed and shouted that it was a massive dent in productivity.

But the reality is that it makes for better society. Working continues to evolve with new technologies to further enhance productivity and people who rail against WFH may very well be the people 30, 40 years ago who railed against computers coming into offices as it's different and would enable people to now play solitaire at their desk instead of work.

The trick here, as said before, is getting the process in place to enable performance tracking remotely. Employees want flexibility, and are searching for it actively. Companies that invest in the ability to offer this are going to get first pick of a lot of candidates.

Those fighting WFH are starting to smell a little of "we have worked this way for the last 20 years, why change?!" but change is how you evolve and those that don't change inevitably eventually collapse.

Yes people who WFH can go and put the washing out or go and pick up kids from school, but ultimately, if the work is getting done, that's what should be important. These "perks" again are no difference from when computers arrived and people all of a sudden could access the internet and you can be certain that folks do access the internet in work for leisure but you can be certain that overall, it improved productivity with the ability to send email, look up information, interconnected systems etc. People are more effective, even with access to things management are afraid of.

We had a sales exec dipshit in last week talking about coming onsite to do their job and how they wanted everyone onsite. Sure why you're travelling home you can call into a customer on the way home and make a sales pitch.

I was just looking at them thinking what a bunch of dinosaurs. Within 10 years big companies won't even have sales execs since it will all be done via AI.

You'll simply have an AI with guidelines on sales prices, your customer AI will contact yours and other hardware companies with a quote for 3000 laptops, 500 storage servers, 500 AI servers and whichever one gives the best price will get the deal. All done within seconds. No need to be paying millions out sales execs, or in bonuses.

And I work in AI..you'll still need developers, intent programmers, prompt engineering etc but the top level sales execs..they're gone but they don't see it yet. They only see the bottom feeders but you can be sure that the CEO's etc all see this in their heads already. Hell with how fast technology is changing it could be 5 years.

More and more of these massive companies will become more automated.. execs and senior management are severely at risk and they know it. Its one of the reasons they're mandating RTO as well.

1. to force people to leave and reduce separation costs
2. to keep themselves in jobs..

Yes, I did. Strangely, people turning down promotions happens all the time.

Do you always try to belittle anyone who turns down a promotion?

When Covid came the company I work for naturally mandated that we all work from home. That was grand. The job got done but my oh my, what an eye opener. It gave me so much more time to spend with my young daughter. I wasn't spending hours in the car each day commuting (almost 1 hour each way).
I eventually changed company and the one I work for now has a fully remote contract which I'm on. My plan is never to go back to the office full time. My job can be done remotely and done well, there is no need to have the team in the office full time. Having the ability to drop my daughter to school and collect her is immeasurable to my well being. Working from home was an eye opener onto how much I was missing out.
We still have the occasional day in the office and everyone gets on grand and enjoys being around their teammates but most look forward to being back at home the next day.

Full time childcare I would fully agree cannot be done if WFH, it’s far too distracting but I don’t see why you would have issue with most of the things on that list - once the work is being done that’s all that should matter. Things like school runs are par for the course and the reason why wfh is such a game changer along with being able to stick on wash or other brief chores. Also you have your lunch time and when at home can get lots done in this time rather than browsing the internet which is what I generally end up doing for an hour in the office.

When someone mentions things like putting on a wash or a school run being an issue with WFH they seem to ignore the amount of distraction and time spent not working when In the office.

The logging on and having breakfast is an interesting one as I generally don’t do this when wfh as I am not under time pressure but on days in the office it’s not unusual for a few of us to go to the nearby cafe after our morning meeting and we could be sitting there chatting and drinking coffee for 30 mins+.

you will probably be taking at least a 50% pay cut unless you can land a job in the other large US companies like Google, Meta, Microsoft etc. 

Where did you get that number?

Its causing a nightmare for employers. Places like Dell could easily have a huge percentage of employees working remotely.

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2024/0917/1470386-irish-workers-survey/#:~:text=Four%20out%20of%20ten%20Irish,rise%20in%20the%20year%20ahead.

I can see why that might be a legitimate reason for them. College is expensive.

I love Working From Hawaii (WFH).

Especially in the winter months.