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Amazon is making its employees come back to the office five days a week (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] [S] 69 points 2 years ago (4 children)

The employees hired during full remote are now going to have to change their lives around going into the office. Tech employees are especially fucked because they either have to stay or they have to attempt to join the flood of tech employees looking for remote jobs (which was caused by the execs doing layoffs at tech companies).

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  • [–] 60 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    There should be protections against hiring someone remote and then forcing them into the office as soon as you want to lay people off by forcing them to quit so you don't have to compensate them.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago

    In some countries, there are already.

    In others, it will be up to courts to decide whether this is illegally firing staff. That said, good luck getting equal legal representation to these trillion-dollar companies.

    So yes, basically, it's legal.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    The worst is those people who bought houses out of town at the top of the real estate market because they believed the propaganda about WFH being permanent. However I never trusted C-level execs or directors not to renege on this, so I didn't do that.

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