Amazon CEO reportedly told remote employees: It’s probably not going to work out

Re:Amazon CEO reportedly told remote employees: It’s probabl... by hinkley on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @04:12AM (#37304745)

I've worked two places that had this rule, and both of them only needed it because they had profound issues elsewhere in their management practice that were leading to trust issues. One of them was almost certainly cargo culting Amazon.

There's only one place I can think of that might have benefited from that rule, and there were other solutions that would have worked as well if not better. Like a boss with a backbone.

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Re:Amazon CEO reportedly told remote employees: It’s probabl... by disgruntledphd2 on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @04:50AM (#37319248)

The real trouble with disagree and commit comes where it's the manager/leadership pushing ideas that are gonna cause problems.

Ultimately, if you need to exercise your management authority about stuff that your reports are doing that's a time-limited move, as too much of this will lead to reports just doing exactly what they're told, which is the kiss of death if you want to build good stuff quickly.

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