At least they're still ~~making~~ letting them work the other 2 days from home.
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Don't work for Amazon. Problem solved.
Amazon's tech employees hired remotely during the pandemic are now stuck: they either must change everything about their lives to go into the office (mind you, they were full remote when hired) or they must find a new job in a super competitive area (made competitive by suits laying off employees elsewhere). Seriously, remote tech jobs get hundreds if not thousands of applicants per listing.
Those people are fucked.
Oh, don't worry about upper management, they can continue to work remotely - but they'll still have dedicated offices in several locations in case they are forced to travel. And that will be one less office for the schmucks who have to come into the office.
And this isn't just Amazon. This is an orchestrated push by the CEOs of many large companies, all conspiring together to claw back some control of their employees. And you'll do it because fuck you, of course you'll do it... what choice have you got?
~~While that makes sense in big cities, in more rural areas Amazon either bought out or bankrupted all competition, so there are no job alternatives.~~ Had a brain fart moment.
Not a lot of rural engineering jobs at Amazon.
You are correct. I got distracted and forgot that the article was talking about office work.
In this case, non-competes prevent people from quitting and switching the job. Also, people forget, that a lot of office workers moved to live outside the city center after the pandemic, so now having to commute is a lot more than mere inconvenience.
I enjoy how Amazon talks a big game about how great they are for the environment and their pledge to stop climate change, then they force workers to commute to the office who have been happily doing their jobs over the internet.
Return to Office Mandates are trying and failing to mask poor company performance.
I used to buy a lot of stuff off of Amazon, and subscribe to Prime, and Kindle Unlimited, all while their service got a little shittier each year.
But they couldn't stop there, and decided to go union-busting, which changed it from a personal choice to a moral one, for me.
(And some Sarcasm:) I didn't think my behavior was enough to cause them all this trouble, but I guess I was buying waaaaay too much shit at Amazon.