Amazon CEO says company will slow hiring rate, no hard return to office planned

Re:Amazon CEO says company will slow hiring rate, no hard re... by thrown_22 on Friday September 09, 2022 @11:17AM (#32780238)

Good people are already working in the US. This is the people who couldn't be bothered moving there.

I've had to tell recruiters straight up that they can't fill that position and never will in Australia/Canada/New Zealand because anyone who could do it is already doing it in the US for x5 the salary they are offering here.

If only the US had a functioning healthcare system I'd move back there too.

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Re:Amazon CEO says company will slow hiring rate, no hard re... by cwilkes on Friday September 09, 2022 @11:40AM (#32780573)

If you are getting paid 5x then your healthcare costs aren’t nearly going to approach anything close to that amount.

As a percentage relative to healthcare maybe (say $10 generic drugs instead of $2) but if you are getting $100k more a year who cares ?

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Re:Amazon CEO says company will slow hiring rate, no hard re... by thrown_22 on Friday September 09, 2022 @06:54PM (#32785861)

> If you are getting paid 5x then your healthcare costs aren’t nearly going to approach anything close to that amount.

Australia has a hard cap on how much you can be charged for. I lived in the US when I was a teen under the most gold plated of plated plans and after a protracted hospital stay that was over $2m we still have over $100k that was not covered after the company lawyers spent months fighting with the insurance lawyers. Things have only gotten worse since then.

In Australia the same thing cost $2k out of pocket.

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