Uh oh, someone's commercial real estate investments must not be performing as well as they expected.

When I worked at Amazon we had data for every little decision we made. Do you want to change the color of a button? Run an A/B test and see if it improves some metric.

Want to stop supporting a 5-year-old device? Go determine the total number of impacted people and figure out some way to compensate them.

Want to get promoted? Get 5 people you worked with to answer specific questions about your work over the last year.

Want to make an entire workforce return to an office after they kept your company afloat during a pandemic? Want to increase commute time? Want to increase cars on the road? Want to make new parents spend less time with their kids? No need for any data, some guy says he knows better.

But I know it's better

Better for whom?

Hey, I worked for this moron and left because of these moronic statements.

Absolutely mind boggling that this company is “run on data” yet there’s no data besides anecdotes to support this backwards idea.

To make it even funnier, here’s an Amazon Director apologizing on LinkedIn because they thought forcing people to come into an office was the right thing to do.

Over the last 15 years these tech leaders have led the charge to offshoring. Now they're telling us we have to work with people on the other side of the world - unless we're in the same timezone. Then we have to be "together" but separated into cubicles. Their logic makes no sense.

Amazon is extremely data-centric at that management level. If he's not showing hard data, then the data he has go against the narrative he's pushing.

This is extremely typical for Amazon corporate.

They have the data because they ask (corporate) employees about their working experience constantly. I'm sure employees love the option to WFH. But they don't like the data (typical) because they spent billions building cheap, crowded, loud office space around the world.

So what do they do? They pull out the mantra, "Disagree and Commit", which is Amazon manager speak for "shut up and do what I say." Ironically, Disagree and Commit is actually "Have Backbone, Disagree and Commit" and is about finding alternative solutions or data when you think the company is doing the wrong things rather than keeping quiet.

Amazon, like most American corporations is an oligarchy and it's run terribly at the top with dire consequences for their employees, customers, and the world.

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

This is exactly the reason why every single one of Amazon's products are shittier today than they were yesterday.

You know what time it is... For Amazon to actually pay taxes.

It's time to flay the skin from Amazon executives. I don't have the data to back it up, but I know it's better.

Just a reminder that if you commute by car it's probably the most dangerous thing you do every day. This guy is literally saying "I have no data but I want you to risk your lives and waste your money twice a day."

Bro, trust me bro - dumb AF execs.

Go chat with Google Bard about work from home vs return to office. Bard is not a fan of WFH. Strange!

I read a lot of comments of angry, rightfully angry, people toward Amazon and its exploitative work policy. I do not buy from Amazon since 2012; I've thrown away my Kindle and told myself F**k that predator. (You cannot hire workforce that has to live with food stamps because your wage isn't enough, I mean, how corrupt one must be to do something like that?)

I wonder how many of you are actually boycotting Amazon? Out of curiosity. I'm Italian and I am petrified that here is imported the Amazon model. And I'll fight with all the energy to stop this Hun who, btw, does not pay taxes. It's immoral and it's unexplainable how his business can be legal.

“Source: trust me, bro.”

My employer decided to close one of our biggest offices right when the pandemic hit, having everybody work from home. This office housed probably 75% of our engineering staff (software developers, QA, IT, etc). Our CEO made it clear that the plan was to be able to hire the best people from the tech sector that we could find, no matter where in the world they were located, and not have them feel left out by being the only remote employees.

The team that I’m on was all local prior to that decision. It now spans every US timezone and two other countries, and we are very good at what we do. I do miss seeing coworkers in person from time to time, but my employer provides us with all the tools we need to remain productive, including being very flexible about work hours, time off, etc. The company also encourages occasional social get-togethers for employees in the same geographic areas.

I personally haven’t set foot in an office since 2019. The company does now encourage people who are within an hour drive of an office to come in a couple times a month. The closest office to me is 2+ hours away.

I really wish executives like this dolt would actually do some real research on this subject and not just rely on gut feelings. Yeah, I know this wouldn’t work for every company, but ours can’t be the only one that’s quietly succeeding at it.

Umm, no?

Get fukt