The really special part is that Jassy is saying that he wants it to go back to like it was "pre-pandemic". Well, as a techie in Seattle, I can assure you that his new policy is much stricter than it was pre-pandemic. Being able to work from home was pretty lax back in the day, and they weren't tracking your badge-ins.

Very disingenuous. It's all about the shareholders, real estate investment, and pressure from city and business interests to get wallets back downtown at lunch time.

Was headhunted for a position at Amazon. But the recruiter said "You might be doing more than your usual 9 to 5. (Min 40 hours)"

And I told her that I sometimes do like 30 hours a week and my team plays video games for the remaining 5-10 hours together.

And she actually got mad at me for saying that.

Surely they're just gonna be left with visa slavery?

There's already an ick associated with working for Amazon, when they start cutting the upsides* why would anyone stick around? I'd personally take a pay cut to go elsewhere if my current job forced me to go in 5 days a week

*Though IMO hybrid working is no longer remotely considered a perk and is the expected norm in this industry now. Even before the pandemic, my previous employer already let us work from home once a week if you wanted to.

Zero shock. The moment they announced 3 days, I knew they were just doing it in chunks and 5 would come sooner or later.

What's the announcement?

I hear next he's going to make them all watch prime video, oh the humanity!

Must be a gold rush for companies that use the AWS infrastructure. My company is already trying to poach a few AWS engineers, with a WFH or hybrid contract.

I hate to break it to you, but plenty of Amazon employees work weekends too, especially when big launch dates are coming up.

Source: Work in an org at Amazon where people have paged us regarding feature work on the weekend.

I once asked/complained about something and sent it to possible bezos email addresses, just guessing.

On a Sunday morning, I got a reply from someone from his office.

I thanked them for replying on the weekend.

Canceled my account last decade...

We're not going back.