Amazon exec says it’s time for workers to ‘disagree and commit’ to office return — “I don’t have data to back it up, but I know it’s better.”

You should also pay everyone 2 million dollars a year. The company will do great and your employees will be happy. I don't have the data to back it up, but I know it's better!

"I don't have data to back it up, but I know it's better."

This is every boss in every company throughout time lol

I wish these assholes would just come out and tell the truth: they need you in the office to justify their multi-decade office leases that they can't get out of.

Amazon monitors and logs and analyzes everything. As a company they are all about data. If they find something that will get the package out the door one half second faster, they'll spend millions rolling it out everywhere.

If he doesn't have the data, there is zero chance that means the data doesn't exist. That means the data paints a very different picture and he has chosen to ignore it.

"I don't know how to micro-manage people unless I can see them sitting in an open floorplan."

Oh, that's interesting, because lots of people have the data. It says the exact opposite of that, though.

I don't have data to back it up but I know it's better

I do have data to back it up, and I know it's not.

Once again, someone in authority misuses their power by dictating what they want reality to be as truth, rather than finding impartial data and serving stakeholders, they ignore their duty and serve their own ego.

Evidence that top-down capitalism sucks ass even at what it is allegedly supposed to do. It's autocratic feudalism with extra steps, and should be confronted accordingly.

It really sounds like he thinks workers are refusing to return to work purely out of a sincere belief that wfh is better for the company and not “go fuck yourselves this is really nice and I’m able to do my job just as well from my home”

How about... No?

I'm one of the folks who actually likes to go in to the office every once in a while, but I'm never making it a daily commute. Never again.

Hell, I'm on an international team now. Over the course of the pandemic, we built ourselves up with folks from multiple states and multiple countries. There is exactly one person on my team I could see regularly if we went back to the office. Literally everyone else is hundreds of miles away at a minimum. Many would need passports.

And that one person? He's got an immune-compromised family member, so he's never going back to the office and risking his loved one's life.

Fortunately, my employer knows it would make zero sense to require all of us to go back to the office. My boss doesn't even live in the same state as me.

August 3, 2023

Stop submitting old shit!

Submit new shit!

They have the data. It's Amazon. The data just doesn't say what they want it to say.

Say you're a control freak without saying you're a control freak 🤣

Return to the office “My source is that I made it the fuck up” edition.

I don’t have data to back it up, but I know it’s better

I hope that this becomes a meme

Fuck this piece of shit,

Since March 2020 I work from home. 2 years for a company ~20 miles from me, I went there 1 time to take a PC and 1 time to bring the PC back at the end of my contract. Then a year in a company ~100 miles from me (did 4 trips to bring HW), and for next year I should have a 2+ years contract for a company ~375 miles away.

Never ever I will RTO commuting useless hours. If the job is 5 minutes from me I may, but else, never.

Amazon exec is about to lose good employees to other places that pay better and have better benefits (like work from home days).

My company subleased 3 out of 4 stories of the office building when they realised most people could happily and effectively work from home. Crazy eh?

Ah, there it is

I wish you could do word substitution in real life like you can with text substitution. If so, every time I heard "I don't have the data to back it up," it would become "I'm an idiot who doesn't know what I'm talking about but-"

Literally everything he said rebuked that last sentence.

I don't have data for you eating lead chips either, but I'm sure it's better.

People don't want to because WFH is much better for employees. Why waste time on commute, gas, and get out from the comfort of your home?

RTO is only "better" for the owning class.

RTO makes it harder to micromanage > employees realise they can self-organise > employees form unions and demand "better" employment contracts

Also the money saved by not commuting has allowed (some) office workers to save up for emergency funds, which comes in handy when it is time for a strike.

RTO = preventative union busting

Trust me bro.

every time my boss threatened RTO I got a new job with a raise. My current company pays me twice what I was making the first time someone tried to force me back into the office, and they don't have an office. They have a PO box for what little physical mail they get, and that's it.

Shut the fuck up, these people need to hear that when this comes out of their mouths. Shut the fuck up, we are struggling and you are not.

It is surprising that they just came out and admitted there is no evidence to back up what they are doing.

Bosses need to fuck right off with their war against remote work.

Amazon doesn't have data? I say bullshit!

Straight up fundamentalist religious thinking right there.

"There isn't any reason for you to believe what I'm saying, but just believe it anyways."

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Mike Hopkins, senior vice president of Prime Video and Amazon Studios, reportedly told members in an internal meeting that when it comes to returning to the office, “it’s time to disagree and commit.

Nonetheless, Hopkins added, a return to the office is important because it’s the personal belief of CEO Andy Jassy and other top brass that “we just do our best work when we’re together.”

This time last year, Jassy said Amazon had no plans for a compulsory office return and instead intended to “proceed adaptively.” That sentiment didn’t last, and Jassy soon joined peers Elon Musk and Sundar Pichai in their pro-office enthusiasm, mandating an office return earlier this year (the company does have an exception request process that’s considered on a case-by-case basis).

But Annie Dean, VP of Team Anywhere at Atlassian and Meta’s former director of remote work, told Fortune the whole idea is a misnomer.

Any bosses expecting office presence by itself (rather than a full cultural overhaul) to solve existing problems of productivity, innovation, or creativity will be sorely disappointed.

Opportunities for mentorship, communication, and learning by osmosis are difficult to replicate over Zoom, particularly for early-career workers or recent hires, a wide swath of research has found.

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