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Nothing like a cloud provider being part of the problem rather than the solution
If companies like Amazon and Zoom are pushing people back into the office, maybe they are finding issues with full remote work.
It's got to be on a spreadsheet somewhere, but whoever's got it isn't showing it to us.
I feel like, even if they showed it, no one hear would want to believe it.
That's assuming rational leadership. That's pretty rare.
I'm not expecting rationality, but I'm expecting a somewhat consistent strategy. If a company makes decisions the same way five times, I expect them to make decisions the same way the sixth.
But you're not pointing out anything about consistency? You just implied Amazon and Zoom making the same decision means they had some level of knowledge about undefined "issues."
I've said Amazon and Zoom likely have internal data driving this decision.
Also, per a lot of documentation, Amazon focuses a lot on efficiency with metrics and will do whatever to make those metrics go up. So, in Amazon's case, I can't imagine the company making a decision to push efficiently metrics down just to fill an office.
So yeah, you're making a lot of assumptions that they're making rational decisions based on data. That's what I said to begin with.
Shame they never actually produce the supposed evidence of this. Just vague statements and platitudes that wax poetic about years gone by.
There are zero things I need in the office to do my job and I get everything done when I WFH in a timely and efficient manner. So what if I also get to watch old movies while I do it? I get it done and I do it well. Bosses just want to monitor your life because they think if you take so much as a minute off, you're costing them money and it's utter bullshit.