Easy way to thin your workforce while and an easy scapegoat for future issues.

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So… Why in the everloving fuck would Amazon want to do this?!?

My gut feeling is that the economy is sluggish and companies like Amazon and Zoom want to force this now because they know they’ll shed employees without having to announce layoffs and hurt their stock price.

Warning: conspiracy theory incoming. Imagine you are an investor, one of those big guns that are on top of a few big companies. You have a lot of money, but because you’re smart you don’t invest it all in tech companies. Some of it goes to, let’s say, real estate. Now imagine what would happen to that money if companies no longer needed offices, those huge and expensive offices… Also, you invest in an overseas company. There’s lots of profit there because you pay cheap to your employees. Now those employees can start working directly to US companies for cheaper than in US, but still more than is paid in that country. Now if want people working for you, then you need to pay more than these remote workers receive. There goes your extra profit And the way this happened really shows that companies were really hoping to change the way of working after COVID, but someone didn’t allow that.

They probably don’t want the office space they’re paying leases for to be empty. At least I’m pretty sure that’s most of why the company I work for settled on 3-2. They wanted everyone in 5 days a week and then they started to lose some fairly impactful people and ratcheted back their stance.

They claim it’s for “community” and “meetings” and “ease of collaboration”. But I think they just don’t want to look bad.

Almost sounds like the perfect setting for a timed logic bomb