AWS CEO on AI, Return-to-Office Policy and What’s Next in the Cloud | WSJ

I hope Amazon experience a big brain drain and the people that are FORCED to return or get fired with zero severance do the bare minimum. No one likes to have a gun pointed to their, given an ultimatum and also have these companies making billions of dollars weasle their way out of compensating people to being fired. This CEO is bottom of the barrel s-bag imho.

Yes, everyone Must join in-person. good days over 🎉

Amazon is old 🗝️, shift to Microsoft or Google cloud.

So he spends most of the interview talking about the future, how the world is changing, how the world is advancing. Then at the end says the old way of 5 day in office is the only way. So guess innovation only exists until it reaches a workers rights to work life balance.

I would like to know more about the "9 out of 10" thing. It puts a severe question about the honesty and genuineness of AWS and its business representatives, if this claim just passes by without any explanation. in short, nobody wants to buy anything from a company with "9 out of 10" liars.

I got ripped off by aws. Poor customer service, they charge high amount for the so called business support

This guy is something else

There are several reasons why the PR line is BS:

1. Some of the VPs+ of Amazon are remote, but "exempted," so it's selectively applied.
2. Even if everybody does go to the office, the majority of teams are distributed around the US. So there's STILL not that chummy random waste of time chatting with other people on your team instead of working. Everybody is just on zoom calls in the office instead of on zoom calls at home.
3. If you really want MORE meetings instead of working, then schedule "innovation" meetings.

There is NO scenario where this increases production or innovation.

Literally just a covert way of doing layoffs and not having to pay severance.

Especially around XMas, just stop being Scrooge and if you want to fire people then own up and pay the severance.

They asked AWS employees what they thought of RTO and 9 out of 10 agreed they prefer Sneeds Seed and Feed. The science is settled.

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Greed

With leaders like him, who needs idiots?

so instead of mandating certain days in the office they required everyone all day five days? Really creative leadership AWS.... performative work really is the metrics by which these CEOs still live by

I'm curious - will all meetings be in-person only after the return to office, or will employees continue to use tools like Zoom, Chime, and Teams?

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