Amazon CEO Tells Workers: Return to Office or 'It’s Probably Not Going to Work Out for You'
Amazon CEO Tells Workers: Return to Office or 'It’s Probably Not Going to Work Out for You'
Andy Jassey warned remote workers at the company that it's "past the time to disagree" over returning to the office.
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“Jassey deflected questions on what data or information led him to make this decision. Jassey, seemingly losing patience, eventually warned employees that if they don’t return to the office, they may have to find employment elsewhere.”
So he doesn’t have a good reason, and when asked about it he started to “lose patience”? How dare anyone question the all mighty CEOs plans /s
People get annoyed when they are weak. In this case, the weakness is that he has not reason he can publicly say, so he gets angry. What a loser.
I really wish they'd give a real reason for it. Just say "When we built our offices we negotiated with the city to have lower taxes and if you don't come back we'll lose that." Or "We don't want the value of our commercial real estate holdings to go down."
At the very least the workers could be mad at the right thing. Instead Amazon is going to lose its best folks to fully remote jobs first, then backfill with people who aren't able to get a WFH job or have to pay people a huge premium to attract remote workers back to the office.
That will hurt them worse than the taxes or real estate devaluation, but that will happen over years instead of by next quarter, so they don't care.
we are going back to the office at least three days a week, and it’s not right for all of our teammates to be in three days a week and for people to refuse to do so.
Not very compelling
The problem is that commercial real estate has pretty much always been a staple underpinning of stock portfolios.
And now that it's not needed, their portfolio could tank.
I work at Amazon, and for many people this is what annoys people the most.
Rightly or wrongly, a lot of people like Amazon because it pushes the narrative that data is king. If you want to do something, you need the right data and figures to justify it.
Since Jassy took over, Amazon mimicked other tech companies by becoming a belief-driven company, instead of a data-driven company. The reason he's losing patience is because his belief is being questioned, at a time where his leadership is either being questioned or being followed right to the top.
Data at Amazon has never been king, it was lip service at best and in most case it was only ever to be used to attack someone else's position, never to support your own.
He's just continuing the tradition
FWIW, I fully agree, and I've seen countless examples of managers using LP's as a weapon to fuel URA or to promote their own views.
The view is distorted in that the people that Jassy is pissing off are those that benefited and thrived under the reign of Bezos. IMO, he would've done the exact same thing, but that doesn't stop the Amazon cult from remembering "the good old days".