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Amazon CEO reportedly told remote employees: ‘It’s probably not going to work out’ - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy recently told employees that those who do not want to return to the office at least three days a week should consider finding employment elsewhere. According to a recording obtained by Insider, Jassy stated "It's past the time to disagree and commit," adding that if employees cannot commit to the new hybrid work model, "it's probably not going to work out for you at Amazon." He characterized the decision to have employees return to the office part-time as a "judgment call." Notably, Jassy said employees are free to leave if they do not want to comply with the hybrid work requirement. This makes clear that Amazon has not changed its stance on returning to office work despite some employees preferring full remote arrangements.

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[–] mwguy@infosec.pub 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe it's time to consider alternative cloud providers at work. AWS is pretty good but they're going to alienate a ton of talented engineers by doing this.

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is an important point. What cloud providers are flexible on engineer working conditions? I’d imagine they’d all be smaller scale providers?

[–] mwguy@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago

Brain drain is terminal for a technology product (most of the time). In the short term I'll focus on making our products portable (migrating ec2 init scripts to docker, using frameworks for server less instead of using direct apis etc...). And when the time comes switch to whatever is best.

[–] AttackPanda@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

I know from a friend that works for GCP that they are up his ass to get back into the office and have been for a while. Not sure on Azure but I think you’re right that it’s probably going to be small cap places.