Amazon Mandating 3 days back in office come May first

Re:Amazon Mandating 3 days back in office come May first by lbrito on Friday February 17, 2023 @01:19PM (#34838290)

I love these interpretations. They're at the same time literally true, but completely out of touch with reality. I guess a minimum wage worker at a fast food joint in Manhattan is free to choose to live right next to his job, am I right?

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Re:Amazon Mandating 3 days back in office come May first by mym1990 on Friday February 17, 2023 @01:24PM (#34838366)

Live right next to their job in Manhattan as in being homeless, I guess.

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Re:Amazon Mandating 3 days back in office come May first by Turing_Machine on Friday February 17, 2023 @04:06PM (#34840586)

You understand that you don't actually have to live in Manhattan if your career goal is to work in a fast food joint, right?

Contrived hypotheticals don't actually address the issue under discussion.

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Re:Amazon Mandating 3 days back in office come May first by Kerrick on Saturday February 18, 2023 @01:58AM (#34844660)

There are, in fact, fast food restaurants in Manhattan.

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Re:Amazon Mandating 3 days back in office come May first by throwaway049 on Saturday February 18, 2023 @07:11AM (#34846294)

Anyone know if they pay better than ones elsewhere? Or what other things enable them to recruit staff?

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Re:Amazon Mandating 3 days back in office come May first by Turing_Machine on Saturday February 18, 2023 @09:44AM (#34847264)

Glassdoor.com suggests that McDonald's in NYC pays crew members and cashiers about $36-37k/year and managers around $129k/year.

The national minimum wage of $7.25/hour works out to about $12k/year, so that's about three times as much.

New York State has a higher minimum wage, $14.20/hour. That works out to about $24k/year, so NYC McDonalds is still paying considerably more.

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Re:Amazon Mandating 3 days back in office come May first by throwaway049 on Saturday February 18, 2023 @09:59AM (#34847352)

Wow. For contrast, central London McDonalds is paying about 10 GBP per hour for crew - which is the UK legal minimum wage and as of today equivalent to 12 USD.

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Re:Amazon Mandating 3 days back in office come May first by WheatMillington on Friday February 17, 2023 @01:51PM (#34838721)

The counterpoint gets far more absurd. Should you expect to be able to move to a different state and have the employer fly you to work and back each day, or would that be entirely unreasonable?

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Re:Amazon Mandating 3 days back in office come May first by Brendinooo on Friday February 17, 2023 @02:29PM (#34839175)

It's not an unsolvable problem. Free bus passes for people who live close enough to ride a bus, and some kind of sliding scale beyond that.

Or look up the national average or industry average or metropolitan area average commute time/distance, and build something around that.

Or give a $1000 stipend to every employee to either spend on gas for daily commutes or two flights a year to come visit.

Could certainly figure something out if there was sufficient motivation to do so.

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Re:Amazon Mandating 3 days back in office come May first by Volundr on Friday February 17, 2023 @01:55PM (#34838762)

The employer could choose not to employ anyone who lives more than X distance away. Many already do.

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