Amazon WFH Policy

Now Dell are ordering their sales staff back to the office 5 days per week…

Dell sales staff RTO mandate from Monday! Lack of notice here is poor imo

https://www.siliconrepublic.com/business/dell-return-to-office-five-days-sales

Hopefully reality starts kicking in now for many posters in this thread that RTO is inevitable for most eemployees.

It will be return or quit policy in 2025.

Dell already badly failed in their general attempted to force staff back to hybrid from fully remote there is no reason to believe this won’t be ignored either. If it’s one or two people maybe disciplinary action could be taken but if a similar percentage like 50% which refused the hybrid return even what can they really do, can’t sack half the sales team.

Absolute dinosaur thinking though and don’t get me started on phrases like this “To harness this energy and grow skills, we believe our sales teams need to be together in the office.”

Would make you want to vomit, a completely baseless statement. What forced 5 days in the office does is create tired, disgruntled and stressed employees nothing more.

That really does sound like hell to me 😂

We're all very different at the end of the day.

Which is why I think hybrid is great. You want to be in the office, you can.

You don't want to be in the office, you can.

Everyone's happy.

A few months? I am 5 years working for my current employer of that 4 years were either fully remote or hybrid (max 3 days in the office per week). Not being in the office 5 days is now my normal.

That does sound quite stressful and an awful waste of time if you just work alone all day with headphones on why couldn’t it be done from home? Commuting is a waste of time and money along with the stress of it - both the stress of the actual journey and the issues not being at home is creating e.g. not being able to do a school pick up during the day and how will it be done if you or your partner aren’t WFH to do it. That’s just one example.

There is so many advantages to wfh for both family and general work life balance reasons it is a major issue of people who are being needlessly forced back to offices 5 days per week.

They know the market isn’t great right now for tech so they’re barrelling ahead with a RTO. You could call your shots in tech not so long ago, following the tech layoffs the pendulum is swinging the other way.

Not surprised though, Amazon were just waiting to do this.

You don't feel for us, you just know one way of living your working life, and add "mental health", which in this context is a buzzword, too it to sound authoritative. My mental health improved a lot without the commuting!

"...Amazon has also been under pressure in the short-term to offset the long-term investments in building out its AI infrastructure...."

Over hired in the pandemic, needs to cut numbers to invest in its AI.

Don't need to be Sherlock Holmes to put two and two together on that.

I dunno that part was a bit vague.

"... Amazon is likely realising enough AI-driven productivity gains..."

That sounds creating a narrative which might not true but that can be used to justify further job cuts.

I've yet to see an AI do some thing that didn't need a lot human input and correction and oversight or 100% accurate. Certainly not to a level where it could replace thousands of people.