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Re:Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefin... by DoreenMichele on Monday October 11, 2021 @03:53PM (#28832303)
It feels rare to see Amazon ever make a change to such a publicly stated policy like this...

Jeff Bezos recently stepped down as CEO. Google tells me that happened July 5th of this year, a few months ago.

He founded the company. It's essentially under new management for the first time ever.

I don't think you can infer much from this incident. There are too many unusual factors at play and we don't have an established track record for what the "new normal" (post Bezos) will be for Amazon.

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Re:Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefin... by picardo on Monday October 11, 2021 @04:01PM (#28832379)
Jeff was still with the company when the last version of the policy was announced, i.e. "3 days from office, 2 days from home." It was probably the head of HR who came up with it.

Jeff accepted it like, "Oh well." You could tell he couldn't care less.

But Andy Jassy looked ashen. I think his becoming CEO was the reason Amazon changed course. If Jeff had stayed, he would have let HR decide the policy for the entire company, and it would have been disastrous for AWS.

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