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Re:Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week by wubrr on Monday September 16, 2024 @05:42PM (#41561268)
> Managers and executives felt a tiny bit less powerful for a small amount of time due to their workers pushing for remote and having the leverage to do so.

They are in 'avoid responsibility and blame all misses on circumstances outside their control' mode. Remote work is the perfect excuse for incompetent management in big tech.

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Re:Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week by forgot-im-old on Monday September 16, 2024 @06:06PM (#41561554)
Good theory. Killing remote seems the first line of defense in covering.
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Re:Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week by collingreen on Monday September 16, 2024 @06:18PM (#41561688)
Kind of killing the golden goose though. If this was the plan then it would be better to NOT force a return to office and just keep blaming everything on WFH over and over with a little "millennials/Z just don't want to work anymore" sprinkled in.
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Re:Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week by wubrr on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @11:21AM (#41568602)
It's middle management mostly directly responsible for IC/team productivity and blaming misses on WFH. Upper management is hearing 'WFH is the problem' from middle management and making the RTO decisions.
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Re:Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week by HDThoreaun on Monday September 16, 2024 @06:25PM (#41561763)
This sounds much more likely to me than the revenge narrative.
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