It's easy to avoid buying things from Amazon. It's hard to avoid AWS. It would be insane to try to suss out what provider everyone that I buy stuff from uses, and their third party relationships. Regulation is better.

Yup. They want people to quit.

Yah this is literally the most basic shit any company can do to be more "green", cut costs, have access to a larger worker base...

Nope. Because the CEOs are all more concerned with the commercial real estate market than running their company efficiently.

They illegally fired the very employees who led the effort to pressure the company internally to do more on climate.. All their climate posturing ever since has been bullshit.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/29/amazon-settles-with-employees-who-said-they-were-fired-over-activism.html

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.

That’ll teach us plebs. We’d better start licking some serious Amazon boot so they deign to let some of us earn enough to not die.

Thats assuming those full remote employees are anywhere near an office.

God I hate Amazon now. They're basically Wal-Mart these days with half the results being sponsored (advertisements) - and you see that even if you pay for Prime. There are some things you can only get there, but otherwise, since all e-commerce is converging, I don't see the point of enabling their bad behavior. But whichever global corporate enterprise you take your business to, they will likely have a similar mindset.

Aren't they still cheaper if nobody uses them?

Don't give up so easily

Companies want profit but the people who run them want control. Sooner or later the companies will reconfigure themselves to benefit the bottom line.

"Probably could've made a ton more" - no chance of that working for Amazon.

You dodged a lot of pain and loooong hours, 7 days a week.

Because people need stable incomes and healthcare, so they start applying for jobs and get them. People aren't quitting to be unemployed.

Honestly, IDK. My company is moving their office slightly further away from me. This will add much more commute time because of the location though. I'm already looking for a new job but if I don't find one by then I'm certainly not going in. We worked 100% remote for over 3 years. I'll find out what the consequences are.

My situation will be a bit different though since the office location is moving. Seems unreasonable that they'd be able to deny unemployment because of that.

They need to find their next job first