"We don't have a plan to require people to come back... But we're going to proceed adaptively as we learn."
No plan to come back != a promise to never force employees back to the office. Paired with Amazon's continued commercial real estate investments (discussed in the article), that's a massive competitive disadvantage in the remote work space. As a remote worker who plans on buying a home and putting down roots in the small, middle-of-nowhere town I live in, no way in hell that I'd accept a job offer from a company that dangles RTO over my head like this.
Of course, Amazon is toxic enough to avoid anyway. But I hope other employers don't embrace this nonsense.
No plan to come back != a promise to never force employees back to the office. Paired with Amazon's continued commercial real estate investments (discussed in the article), that's a massive competitive disadvantage in the remote work space. As a remote worker who plans on buying a home and putting down roots in the small, middle-of-nowhere town I live in, no way in hell that I'd accept a job offer from a company that dangles RTO over my head like this.
Of course, Amazon is toxic enough to avoid anyway. But I hope other employers don't embrace this nonsense.