Re:Amazon to Close 4 of Its 5 US Call Centers, Shifts to Wor...
by polio on Saturday October 01, 2022 @03:33PM
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To uphold in-person work for these weak social bonds would be myopic. We should have more robust forms of community outside of work. That isn't something that a workplace can ever reliably provide at scale, given the incentives of workers to maximize income and not connection.
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Re:Amazon to Close 4 of Its 5 US Call Centers, Shifts to Wor...
by 300bps on Saturday October 01, 2022 @04:29PM
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Agreed. I happily use my old commute time to socialize with people I want to hang out with instead of the people I’m forced to be with through happenstance at work.
Re:Amazon to Close 4 of Its 5 US Call Centers, Shifts to Wor...
by azinman2 on Saturday October 01, 2022 @04:00PM
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> given the incentives of workers to maximize income and not connection.
I don’t understand this point.
Re:Amazon to Close 4 of Its 5 US Call Centers, Shifts to Wor...
by hnuser123456 on Saturday October 01, 2022 @04:02PM
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s/workers/employers
Re:Amazon to Close 4 of Its 5 US Call Centers, Shifts to Wor...
by polio on Saturday October 01, 2022 @07:06PM
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But also your fellow employees would not be wrong to leave their job (and hence you) if a better opportunity presented itself, and I don't think they should be disparaged for making that choice. Such is the peril of friendship via work.
Re:Amazon to Close 4 of Its 5 US Call Centers, Shifts to Wor...
by Something1234 on Saturday October 01, 2022 @03:57PM
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Instead we'll get a new alter to worship at together one that makes us all poorer.
Re:Amazon to Close 4 of Its 5 US Call Centers, Shifts to Wor...
by paulryanrogers on Saturday October 01, 2022 @04:07PM
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Can you elaborate? Are you saying we should worship at the alter of in person work? That it makes us richer than those who don't have to commute or suffer open office plans?