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Amazon starting to track and penalize workers who work from home too much (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Some staff members were alerted on Wednesday they were “not currently meeting our expectation of joining your colleagues in the office at least three days a week”, according to emails shared with the Financial Times. The emails were also discussed on the anonymous corporate message board platform Blind.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Amazon will discover what the rest of the market discovered, that unless they’re paying a big premium, employees will just go somewhere else. This is the real reason the VC types have been wishcasting a recession: with an unemployment rate that starts with “3” companies don’t have as much leverage as they’d like

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Sounds like we're due for a bipartisan bill to solve this by bailing out the in-person companies with money from the remote companies.