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Re:Amazon CEO reportedly told remote employees: It’s probabl... by smsm42 on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @04:02PM (#37313129)
"just following orders" implies doing something inherently immoral, but refusing to take responsibility and laying it on higher authority. Nothing like that is happening here. RTO is not inherently immoral - while I prefer remote work, it's a valid choice for management to have different preference for their teams. The team members can either agree with that or move to another team or employment - neither choice is morally wrong in any way. I personally think handling it this way would be detrimental for Amazon, but I am not their manager and they are, so it's their authority. There's no need to put it like there's only one obviously moral way to handle it and the other way is morally flawed.
Re:Amazon CEO reportedly told remote employees: It’s probabl... by Teckla on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @08:11PM (#37315940)
Nothing like that is happening here. RTO is not inherently immoral

Commuting to/from an office (releasing a lot of CO2 and pollution) when remote work is an option can easily be considered immoral these days.

Re:Amazon CEO reportedly told remote employees: It’s probabl... by netdoll on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @11:11PM (#37317215)
In addition, the imposition of RTO strictures on employees who are neurodivergent (which makes up a relatively high percentage of the valley and other tech hubs for reasons I don't need to explain here) can also be considered a kind of immoral behavior since it is (intentionally or not) optimized to cause acute distress to those who fit into those neurotypes. I have intentionally avoided the tech sector for this reason and a couple of others (mostly to do with physical disabilities and inability to get medicated for things like ADHD)