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Re:Amazon’s attrition costs $8B annually according to leaked... by ChuckNorris89 on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @05:34AM (#33244884)
>Joining meetings at Seattle time (like 7-8pm CET),

In which country are you? We Europoors usually have labor laws to protect us from having to work so late. Where I live we have core working hours in our contract, 10:00 to 16:00, any work requests after that are voluntary for the employees. Is that not something you can use to push back on this?

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Re:Amazon’s attrition costs $8B annually according to leaked... by Bayart on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @06:05AM (#33245058)
Labour laws do not apply if you're freelancing, which you have to do most of the time for US companies.
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Re:Amazon’s attrition costs $8B annually according to leaked... by nivenkos on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @06:25AM (#33245225)
Yeah, but good luck enforcing that with no trade union, nevermind if you're aiming for a promotion, etc.

Like real worker power comes from having good economic conditions and strong trade unions - the American engineers have far more bargaining power, because they can easily get competing $150k-250k offers which are unimaginable in Europe.

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