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Amazon gets rid of around 5-8% of their staff every year through unregretted attrition, where they'll fire "underperforming" people, with maybe 10-15% of people being threatened with underperformance "
Alongside this, to cut a long story short Amazon grew huge during COVID, and despite tens of thousands of layoffs the company has been trying to shrink everywhere possible, cutting fat wherever they can. IMO, leadership made lots of really stupid decisions, and the CEO has set Amazon on a course where irreparable damage has been made.
I don't think this is going to be just cutting fat though. They're going to have their desperate and least-talented employees working in the office while their most talented employees will end up finding remote employment elsewhere. That's how RTO always goes.
Oh, 1000%. I could write a book on how monumentally stupid the whole process is (and most Amazonians agree), but the fundamental points are:
Most fundamentally of all...very few companies do this. It died with Jack Welch/GM and Gates/Microsoft, after they saw the same downfalls. Amazon is yet to learn their lesson, and it shows in how poorly the "Amazon Management School" under Bezos are performing. The other big tech companies also now do this, although less severe, and surprise surprise, they're all going downhill - making awful decisions, delivering nothing of value, and ignoring customers over leadership.
I'm aware of this policy but I didn't realise the number was that large.
It's a great strategy to have your employees backstabbing each other instead of working together too. "Oh, Jim is struggling? Good, one more person below me in the ranks".
It feels the exact same way in the USPS.