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Amazon cloud boss says employees unhappy with 5-day office mandate can leave (www.cnbc.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

The CEO of Zoom explictily stated that he felt in zoom meetings people were being too "friendly" and not willing to have "debate".

Why would it be bad for employees to be friendly? What employees want to have unfriendly debates in meetings? I think it's just managers that want that. What kind of "debate" do managers want? Why do they not want meetings to be "friendly"? Methinks they just want to yell at employees and don't feel comfortable doing it in zoom meetings for some reason...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

But the leap you’re making is between a single statement from one CEO and the nebulous “they”.

I’ve been pretty close to billionaire CEOs in my career and certainly the ones I’ve come across have been well equipped to handle the job, well adjusted and well meaning.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Now you're talking about CEOs as a nebulous they.

I'm talking about a CEO that said things similar to what an amazon exec said under an article about what that amazon exec said.

Also I work in software development. There has been a clear uptick in negativity towards developers where I work, which happens to be in a similar field to the one in the article.

I've also worked with AWS, and I can tell you for sure, they can't afford to lose their best talent. Their system is pretty janky in many places and their boss should be putting more effort in making better software instead of playing games about forcing people to sit in a specific chair 5 days per week.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

I said “the ones I’ve come across”. Thats as “leap free” as I can make that statement.

I agree re AWS; they’ve already got super disgruntled staff and they definitely cannot afford to lose good staff from this.