Amazon exec says it’s time for RTO: ‘I don’t have data to back it up, but I know it’s better’
“We’re here, we’re back. It’s working.”
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Hey, I worked for this moron and left because of these moronic statements.
Absolutely mind boggling that this company is “run on data” yet there’s no data besides anecdotes to support this backwards idea.
To make it even funnier, here’s an Amazon Director apologizing on LinkedIn because they thought forcing people to come into an office was the right thing to do.
Compromise is the moment a group has given up on finding the best solution
What a toxic and zero-sum viewpoint. What a stark admission that someone is unable to be willing to consider the possibility that someone else might be right, or at least partially right. If this philosophy was prevalent at Microsoft in 2010+, it would explain a number of Microsoft corporate decisions. Putting a smartphone touchscreen UI on a computer server product (Windows 2012) being just one obvious example.
Strongly agree. If anything, compromise is necessary for finding the best solution for everyone, especially as we're all different.
That manager thinking that compromise is "giving up" needs to get out of the selfish delusion and come back to reality. Feel sorry for the subordinates!
The reasons to be accepted for a mid-level and above management position have long stopped including "being a leader".
Doesn't it also contradict his own decision? Below that quote he also says:
compromises that preserved cohesion were tantamount to "deciding to lose"
Forcing RTO is maintaining the status quo, which itself is a compromise you make to not do anything about the changes that happen as time goes on. He is literally making a compromise to preserve cohesion. But I guess in his mind him making compromises with himself don't count, the only compromise that matters is the one he has to make with others.
if someone said this to me I'd be like "oh okay great. I won't compromise then. I'm working from home."
If this dude "loved every minute of the 80+ hour work weeks of the early 2000's", feels like I can safely ignore anything he has to say about work
He was in his early 20s based on his stated age, bro-ing out with beers and code, likely making gobs of startup money when you could still reasonably buy a house, which is likely worth 10x what it was then.
Now he makes 700k or more, living in his basically free house, and needs to put on a show for current 20 somethings like that is something good that can still happen to them.
Word. But people change.
Exactly. I reread this twice because I felt like I had certainly read it wrong in the first place... which I had not...
Working from home also had, from my observation, a massive and materially beneficial impact on females specifically working mothers, who bare a disproportionate share of domestic work.
Ew
Every single time some dude writes "females" I see this.
What I don't get, is that, female clearly applies to any living species right?
Women refers to female humans.
It's so easy to say "women" because you are talking about people. The word "female" has no such implication.
I truly think the repetitive and serious use of "females" instead of women is actually an attempt at degrading the status of women in society.
But not like "oh its already bad" but more intentional now. It worries me, because there are a lot of political persons using the language too.
Saying "females" is just one step above saying "bitches." That's how it hits my ear at any rate.
Eh, "bitches" is better now. If only because is can be used to describe friends. I can not see a group of people out on the town calling themselves party "females".
OMG perfect
In business, all data are vanity metrics. If they make you look good, you slap that shit on everything; if they make you look bad, you "don't have it".
It's just that sometimes you can use negative data to make decisions that look good to those above you, and sometimes you know that you can't.
Hell, businesses might even keep asking you to keep changing criteria and numbers until they hear what they want to hear. I literally am dealing with this right now for a local retailer; they keep insisting that I keep changing criteria and numbers relating to how many sales they closed until they hear an answer they like. When I gave them the raw numbers, the owner and manager were straight-up in denial about it and said I was wrong and that the data is off because they felt it should have been a different number than presented.
Fucking frustrating and stupid, but that’s how upper management and corporate people can be apparently.
