Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefinitely

Re:Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefin... by christophilus on Monday October 11, 2021 @06:41PM (#28833922)

If you’re going to work from home, do so for a company where WFH is first class. I’ve worked for remote-only companies and for mixed companies. The mixed ones were really terrible WFH experiences. The remote-only / remote-first ones were excellent. It really makes a difference.

/anecdote

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Re:Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefin... by HighPlainsDrftr on Monday October 11, 2021 @11:35PM (#28835786)

I've worked remotely for about 15 years. It isn't what it is cracked up to be.

But TBH, after the pandemic hit, I found written communications to be far better than they had been previously.

That really leveled the playing field for me. But from my point of view, I've derived much of my communications from mailing lists, forums, listservs over the years. When people get around the water cooler and and I am just hanging around Thunderbird, I'm at a big disadvantage.

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Re:Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefin... by mabbo on Monday October 11, 2021 @07:03PM (#28834100)

Funny enough, I start with Shopify tomorrow. They went remote-only last year.

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Re:Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefin... by jahfer on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @12:14AM (#28835966)

Welcome! Feel free to ping me on Slack if you’ve got questions and don’t know who to ask (:

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Re:Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefin... by late2part on Monday October 11, 2021 @07:33PM (#28834287)

CrowdStrike has been primarily remote-only for 10 years.

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Re:Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefin... by makeitdouble on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @05:26AM (#28837769)

I'd second the remote-only / remote-first point.

In particular, "remote-first" can effectively work, and bring diversity in the work place that is always welcome. It requires discipline and a real buy in from every layer of the company, but when it works I think it's the best.

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Re:Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefin... by doopy1 on Monday October 11, 2021 @11:10PM (#28835662)

What makes a good experience vs. a poor one for you?

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Re:Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefin... by ipaddr on Monday October 11, 2021 @11:27PM (#28835746)

A team that has strong reading and writing abilities and a culture that promotes documentation and decentralization of work through tickets or some other form.

A culture that will always prefer an hour long zoom meeting to a 2 minute exchange on stack. A zoom based culture is one that hasn't fully walked away from the office.

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Re:Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefin... by dvtrn on Monday October 11, 2021 @11:55PM (#28835877)

Hasn’t fully walked away from the office and probably hasn’t learned that “management by meeting” is probably an indicator that management isn’t sure what they’re managing for. Probably.

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