The recession has shown the senior leadership team's true nature. What started as multiple rounds of layoffs, then return to office, has now lead to some of the most shady things I've ever seen in my 20+ professional working life.
While reading the rest of this, note that this is happening to people who were hired with the promise that their roles were permanently remote. I ONLY chose this job over another because it was remote only.
- In order to avoid bad PR, they are trying to get employees to leave by making working conditions terrible. They didn't generate enough attrition from asking people to return to office, now they're asking people to move across the country to return to a _different_ office. If those employees disagree, they are "voluntarily resigning" them so it's not a layoff. Boom, no bad PR, no severance, no unemployment insurance costs. This is how much they care about you and your family.
- You give almost no time to decide if you want to relocate to keep your job, and an unbelievable short amount of time to actually relocate. During a housing crisis, no less. Good luck!
- After asking everyone to come into the office, they also gutted their commuter benefits, which used to be decent. Now it's out of your paycheck, which you agreed to knowing you wouldn't have to pay to commute.
- Leadership and HR are by-passing managers to force their directs to come into the office because people aren't complying.
- Amazon is a data-driven company when it fits their narrative. Leadership principles are thrown out the window or skewed as necessary.
- When faced with uproar, instead of listening to feedback and answering real questions about what your real employees are going through, you instead doubled down and now we all feel like we're in middle school taking role call to make sure we're accounted for each day. "Earn Trust"
- "Strive to be Earth's Best Employer" - I just can't even.
- DEI is only a priority if money is being printed. Once times are tough, you're out of luck. You'll have to work hard just to be able to be accommodated and be able to work from home instead of lugging your wheelchair to work.
- Vacation benefits/policies are decades old and you feel guilty using any of it.
