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Re:Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week by tschellenbach on Monday September 16, 2024 @05:16PM (#41561027)
I don't like this us vs them mentality. Nothing stops you from starting your own business and being on the "manager" side of things.

Cost of capital is up, productivity is down. So all companies have to work through options to increase productivity, and/or reduce costs. Companies will take different approaches to this

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Re:Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week by ipaddr on Monday September 16, 2024 @05:49PM (#41561365)
Money/capital stops the worker in general or do you expect the average worker to be able to buy the firm they are working for now because wages are that good?
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Re:Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week by nateglims on Monday September 16, 2024 @05:32PM (#41561172)
Is productivity down? It seems like it's just growing slower than pre global financial crisis.
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Re:Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week by YokoZar on Monday September 16, 2024 @05:33PM (#41561188)
Productivity growth may be slowing, but it is not "down" in general. It's the highest it's ever been.

Is there a specific reason to believe Amazon would have less productivity than the rest of the economy compared with before?

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Re:Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week by insane_dreamer on Monday September 16, 2024 @05:35PM (#41561199)
> productivity is down

according to which statistics?

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Re:Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week by mupuff1234 on Monday September 16, 2024 @05:25PM (#41561112)
An easy way for "them" to stop that mentality would be to take a pay cut and show solidarity in cutting costs, and yet I don't really see that happening.
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Re:Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week by pydry on Monday September 16, 2024 @05:22PM (#41561074)
This idea needs to die.

Gone are the days when you can start the next google in your garage. You need capital to compete.

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Re:Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week by outside1234 on Monday September 16, 2024 @05:25PM (#41561121)
And lots of capital.

Not even Elon Musk has enough in AI for example.

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Re:Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week by consteval on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @01:19PM (#41570132)
> Nothing stops you...

No, lots of things stop you. You can't just say "nothing stops you" and pretend it's true and work from there. Obviously, lots of things stop you otherwise everyone would do it.

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