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Amazon is seeing some employees quit instead of moving to a new state as part of relocation mandate (www.cnbc.com)

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Amazon is seeing some employees quit instead of moving to a new state as part of relocation mandate::As Amazon tries to get employees back to the office, some staffers are being told to relocate to hubs in different states if they want to keep their jobs

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[–] MaybeItWorks@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Please explain what ypu think “workplace bullying” is here. While I think it’s stupid, in at will states, Amazon’s terms of employment can be whatever Amazon wants as long as they comply with federal and state laws. It’s not illegal to tell you your job is moving. It’s just a shitty thing to do to your employees. There’s not bullying here. It’s just terms of employment.

[–] DanTilDawn@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you consider bullying if not just doing shitty things to people because you can?

[–] MaybeItWorks@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean I don’t like capitalism, but this is just capitalism. I appreciate that there is emotion in it, but it’s not as personal as bullying is and I think you are misusing the term bullying altogether. Bullying is a personal attack, this isn’t personal and doesn’t impact an individual in the same way bullying does.

Doesn’t make it right, but this is not bullying. Also, bullying isn’t illegal in any context. You’d have to argue for a hostile work environment and saying your job moved isn’t a hostile work environment.

[–] fluckx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'll agree that bullying is probably the wrong term.

Where I'm from you can't just force people to change work location. If they want to move the company they can, but it has to be within x km of the preclvious building or get agreement from a certain percentage of employees. Otherwise it counts as a collective firing of the workforce.

Politicians should act on this stuff tbh.