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Re:210 Zappos employees – 14% of the staff – take buyouts af... by bunderbunder on Friday May 08, 2015 @01:54PM (#9513134)
I imagine that people in management positions have reason to take the package even if their skill set is perfectly aligned to the new job. If you're on a career path where one of the major measures of your success is how many people are under you, then you better be pretty committed to the Zappos vision if you're staying on. A long stint of not having anyone reporting through you might be a bit of a black spot on your resume if you ever end up for a position elsewhere.
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Re:210 Zappos employees – 14% of the staff – take buyouts af... by liquidcool on Friday May 08, 2015 @11:09PM (#9515329)
Yes, even the title change from something like "Senior Manager" to "Employee" might hurt your chances. With IT/dev it's not so bad, as some very good organizations list both grads and greybeards as "Member of Technical Staff." I have to imagine that those who remain plan to retire from there.
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Re:210 Zappos employees – 14% of the staff – take buyouts af... by lsc on Saturday May 09, 2015 @01:03AM (#9515578)
> If you're on a career path where one of the major measures of your success is how many people are under you,

My assumption would be that those are the people that this move is attempting to push out.

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Re:210 Zappos employees – 14% of the staff – take buyouts af... by latj on Friday May 08, 2015 @05:49PM (#9514344)
The list of people who took the offer was posted internally. I imagine it must be out in the wild somewhere by now as well.

Besides managers who are looking to jump ship and pretend to do work somewhere else, a lot of professionals are on the list- lawyers, accounting people. I imagine some of these people will show up on Amazon's roster in the near future.

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Re:210 Zappos employees – 14% of the staff – take buyouts af... by manigandham on Friday May 08, 2015 @06:04PM (#9514406)
> "Pretend to do work"

Little presumptuous isn't it?

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