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Re:Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week by tomjakubowski on Monday September 16, 2024 @04:01PM (#41560082)
> Instead, the only perk that Amazon has is that you get one free coffee per day, and even that they have tried to remove multiple times.

This is crazy, seriously? Apparently no one has written a good enough two-pager arguing that gratis coffee pays for itself with increased productivity

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Re:Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week by strivingtobe on Monday September 16, 2024 @04:05PM (#41560125)
They have repeatedly tried to remove the free coffee perk (usually by claiming that it was only intended as a temporary thing and will be removed at the end of the year) and the only reason it has been retained this far is because for multiple years running now there was an internal uproar about it.

I suspect at the end of this year they will fully remove it, uproar be damned.

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Re:Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week by 0cf8612b2e1e on Monday September 16, 2024 @04:46PM (#41560678)
That’s so hilariously petty. As if management was not already dictating who is in charge.

Can you bring your own cup? Get the Big Gulp 4 liter thermos every day.

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Re:Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week by rty32 on Monday September 16, 2024 @04:47PM (#41560687)
That's surprising -- I would think it is obvious Amazon doesn't care about internal uproars, and there is nothing people can do about it. Otherwise the current 3 day RTO wouldn't have happened.
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