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Re:Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week by tekknik on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @09:44AM (#41567533)
> see is the impromptu networking between people doing entirely different jobs to discover new opportunities where there is overlap. That is where the magic happens.

there is none of this happening regularly enough to warrant coming in the office full time. teams are already so isolated they cannot interact much less network and converse. then you also have distributed teams, so you end up with offices that have 1 team member in them with the other coworkers working in some entirely different field with no hope of ever interacting.

so again, why do they need to see people work? this is an outdated idea

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Re:Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week by randomdata on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @09:52AM (#41567602)
> there is none of this happening regularly enough to warrant coming in the office full time.

Even if it only happens just once, that's more than enough justification on the employer's side. That's a huge win.

The employee can choose if the slim chance of a win is equally valuable to them or not. It takes two to tango, as they say.

> so again, why do they need to see people work?

I like that you assume they are actually taking time to watch and not just on the golf course.

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