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It's a sneaky way of doing layoffs, everyone who won't comply has to "quit"
by nightfly 2y ago
It's a sneaky way of doing layoffs, everyone who won't comply has to "quit"
- letitgo12345 2y agoIt's an excellent way of getting your best people who have options to quit while the worst ones who don't are forced to stick around
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- kimixa 2y agoThose "best people" may also be some of the higher paid - so if you only care about short term results that may be more of a feature than a bug.
- nothercastle 2y agoDoes Amazon do anything that requires best people anymore? They could probably survive on decidedly mediocre
- kasey_junk 2y agoWhy would Amazon prefer that to layoffs or more aggressive performance standards?
- dboreham 2y agoMoney, and being welcome at the country club.
- keerthiko 2y agoAmazon not being on the hook for severance for a large percentage of high salary workers, plus not having them on payroll/benefits for the weeks/months it would take to transition them out via PIP (including the management overhead involved per staffer) usually adds up to just about enough in savings to go out and recruit fresh, RTO-willing, naive talent much sooner.
- VirusNewbie 2y agoAmazon doesn't really pay severance for PIP, nor are they required to pay severance for layoff. They would be required to do a WARN notice, but how would that be worse than giving people 4 months of notice about the RTO policy?
- kridsdale3 2y agoLess liability.
- kasey_junk 2y agoIts not been my experience that changing expected work requirements causes you to have _less_ liability than layoffs.