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Amazon is making its employees come back to the office five days a week
(www.theverge.com)
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Cool, glad I didn't listen to my parents, who wanted me to work for Amazon. Yeah, I probably could've made a ton more, but I'm making plenty where I'm at.
I work 2x in office, less if I have a somewhat passable reason to not go in. And I can WFH for a few weeks at a time if I need to travel for whatever reason. It's nice working for someone that somewhat respects me.
"Probably could've made a ton more" - no chance of that working for Amazon.
You dodged a lot of pain and loooong hours, 7 days a week.
For now. Soon it's going to be: "Well, Amazon is calling people back, maybe we should, too."
Well, the day my boss says that is the day I submit my 2 weeks notice, and probably half of our dept. We were hired with the promise of always having 3 days at home most days, and my boss kept to that, even pushing back against company policy that tried to shift to 3 days in office.
The day your boss does that is the day they want to lay people off on the cheap, because it's a stupid decision with no measurable benefit over the 3 day minimum most of the big tech companies seem to have settled on.
And that's fine, if my boss changes so radically that he'd go back on years of doing uncomfortable things to keep his word, I know it's not a company I'd feel comfortable working at anymore anyway. Some things they've done:
In other words, he has kept his word for the few years I've worked here, and we've recently been getting praise from the executive team on company-wide calls (well, basically "product X has turned into a primary focus for our org's strategy going forward," where X is the thing I work on and was criticized just a few years).
If my boss leaves the org, I'll probably start looking for jobs. But until then, I'm very happy where I am, even if I know I could probably get paid a little more elsewhere (probably 10% or so). Stability and integrity matter a lot to me.