Amazon and UK government at odds over working from home - who is right?
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Amazon is ordering its staff back to the office five days a week, but the UK government is promoting flexible working.

They are two competing views on where desk-based employees work best.

Amazon is ordering its staff back to the office five days a week, just as the government is pushing for rights to flexible working - including working from home - to be strengthened.

The tech giant says employees will be able to better “invent, collaborate, and be connected”.

But just as the firm’s announcement became news, the UK government was linking flexibility to better performance and a more productive, loyal workforce.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      141·
      1 month ago

      But if the media didn’t ask who was right, people might not consider that Amazon might be right for fucking over its workers!

      • Psychodelic@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        1 month ago

        I just learned that Rockefeller significantly improved his image by giving away the money he stole from his workers.

        Maybe Amazon can just to donate half of the money they don’t pay in taxes to win back most people’s support - hell, maybe even less than that!

  • chakan2@lemmy.worldEnglish
    422·
    1 month ago

    Linda Noble, now 62, from Barnsley, was used to putting on a suit and make-up. In 2020 she was a senior officer in local government, scrutinising governance in the fire service and the police service.

    Then Covid struck and she was working from home.

    “I loathed it. I missed the communication - going into work, someone would make you smile,” she says.

    Professional Karen pissed no one was there to listen to her Karen.

    • Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      10·
      1 month ago

      This was the freeing moment for me working from home. Getting my work done and then sitting there, six hours left in the work day.

      No Karen bitch coming over to their captive audience and talking to me about her piece of shit cats or grandkids that are assholes. Dare I say anything and it’s a documented trip to HR.

      Yeah, those people are all sad no one is being forced to listen to them. Maybe be interesting and people will be your friend, have something to offer. But no, they want to treat us like we are NPC’s and steal away our working time.

      Fuck these parasites. I like seeing them go into the office and hate the other people like them. “Brenda talks too much, so anyways, about my 16th grandchild…”

  • palordrolap@fedia.io
    2·
    1 month ago

    Consider this from the poor manager’s point of view: A WFH employee has no oversight.

    The employee might be slacking and the manager wouldn’t know, and then they’d be in trouble from their manager, or worse yet, the employee might not be slacking and actually getting work done without interference and that would mean that the manager’s job is redundant.

    The horror!