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Amazon AWS CEO: Quit if you don't want to return to office (www.reuters.com)

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One of Amazon's (AMZN.O) top executives defended the new, controversial 5-day-per-week in-office policy on Thursday, saying those who do not support it can leave for another company.

Speaking at an all-hands meeting for AWS, unit CEO Matt Garman said nine out of 10 workers he has spoken with support the new policy, which takes effect in January, according to a transcript reviewed by Reuters.

Those who do not wish to work for Amazon in-office five days per week can quit, he suggested.

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[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

How would that work? People are just going to stay home in front of a disconnected PC and somehow not get fired?

[-] bork@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

Why would the PC be disconnected?

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

If the company doesn't want you to work from home they're not going to let you connect to their system.

[-] bork@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago

They want people in the office, but they still want people to be able to work when they're at home too. No shot RTO comes with blocking remote access to corp systems, or even prod for that matter.

How would oncalls be handled without it even?

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 23 hours ago

I'm guessing by going into the office haha.
Fuck'em.

[-] bork@sh.itjust.works 3 points 23 hours ago

Oncall is usually a 24/7 type of thing, where speed is a major factor, and I doubt they would want to restrict oncall engineers to on-site only.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I'm not seeing anything about 24/7 on call workers. The article is about five days a week employees. Did I miss something?

[-] Sundial@lemm.ee 5 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Bork is saying a blanket ban on computers connecting remotely would not work in a company that has a huge operations department who need to be on-call.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 22 hours ago

Ok, I understand that. But I didn't say anything about either of those things.

[-] Sundial@lemm.ee 1 points 22 hours ago

You kind of did?

Unless I'm misinterpreting your comment.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 22 hours ago

I don't know what comment exactly you're referring to. So probably yes.
Nothing I've said has been complicated or profound.

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