Work Reform

10003 readers

48 users here now

A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.

Our Philosophies:

All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
Workers must join together and fight back for what is rightfully theirs.
We must not be divided and conquered. Workers gain the most when they focus on unifying issues.

Our Goals

Higher wages for underpaid workers.
Better worker representation, including but not limited to unions.
Better and fewer working hours.
Stimulating a massive wave of worker organizing in the United States and beyond.
Organizing and supporting political causes and campaigns that put workers first.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

seeCseas@lemmy.world

tintory@lemm.ee

TinMod@lemmy.world

530

Tech CEOs are backtracking on RTO mandates—now, just 3% want workers in the office full-time (fortune.com)

submitted 3 months ago by ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to c/workreform@lemmy.world

46 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Leaders are perhaps experiencing more resistance than they had anticipated.

Amazon is perhaps the most documented example of how ugly the RTO battle can get: Around 30,000 employees signed a petition protesting the company’s in-office mandate, and more than 1,800 pledged to walk out from their jobs to take a stand.

The tech giant is still complaining that workers are dodging the three-day in-office mandate, over a year after it was announced.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] ARk@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Why would they make employees quit when they are just going to hire again? Weeding out the job hoppers?

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

First you cut the costs and get a bonus for that, then you fill the empty roles, and then get a bonus for that

[–] ready_for_qa@programming.dev 15 points 3 months ago

It's like when you cancel your Netflix when money is tight and then resub once you can afford it again.

We are just labor subscriptions for corporations.

[–] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

Quarterly profits were down. Next quarter is irrelevant.

[–] ofcourse@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Because a lot of CEOs these days only care about quarterly reports. When interest rates went up, companies cost to do business also went up, so to keep the red profit line going up, they had to cut costs somewhere. Labor makes up most of the expenses so layoffs and forced RTO happened.

These CEOs don’t care that they lose years of experience when employees leave. And by the time the lack of experience catches up to the companies shitting themselves, the CEOs hope to have moved on to something else with their massive stock rewards for “increasing shareholder value”. Even the Boeing CEO who wasn’t lucky enough to leave before shit hit the fan is going to get a golden parachute. So really no downside for them.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

The computer did that auto-layoff thing.