To be honest forcing your employees into the office looks really desperate. It makes me think Amazon is in real trouble if they can’t create a website remotely and need to physically force employees into a big building to try to get them to produce.
That’s not good for public image and if I were a shareholder I’d be planning for an exit.
> To be honest forcing your employees into the office looks really desperate.
To some of us, but not everyone. It may look less desperate than layoffs. It can be postured as happening for any number of strong-handed reasons and be called an act of powerful leadership, even if it's just desperate and stupid. Besides, other huge companies have done it already.
Dell did RTO earlier this year and all the coverage I saw made their leadership look weak - the coverage was all about most employees rejecting leadership's push. I didn't see any positive coverage.
My thoughts exactly, we actually _maintain_ a website, not create one!
Jokes aside, I work at Amazon and complexity varies between teams.. but there are few things that can’t be done remotely. Imo the hybrid model works best.
That’s not good for public image and if I were a shareholder I’d be planning for an exit.