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Amazon is moving from being a ruthlessly-efficient corporation to becoming a pennywise pound-foolish, stifling bureaucracy to make office workers miserable and
by mynameisnoone 3y ago
Amazon is moving from being a ruthlessly-efficient corporation to becoming a pennywise pound-foolish, stifling bureaucracy to make office workers miserable and drive away talent.* As Amazon's inability to do either WfH or RTO properly, it's footgunning itself with lower productivity, lower momentum, and lower competitiveness that the Target's, Costco's, and Walmart's of the world can and will exploit. If I were the Motley Fool, I would slap a "sell" rating on AMZN because the Bezos era has ended and the era of hyperdeep PHB MBA management pyramids has begun.
* They already do their best to make delivery drivers' and warehouse workers jobs as inhuman and miserable as possible.
- htss2013 3y agoPeople are so naive to think that the big tech firms don't know exactly what theyre doing. They all more or less operate the same way. If someone is a top performer within a highly valued part of the org, then one way or another they will be able to navigate RTO without serious problems. For everyone else, RTO is a dial for management to fine tune voluntary attrition before having to resort to more unpleasant tools like higher PIP quotas, at a time where big tech firms all still need to cut employee costs.
- woleium 3y agothey have a core value of frugality, which verges on frupidity on occasion. there is a long page on the internal wiki about the latter