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Amazon is seeing some employees quit instead of moving to a new state as part of relocation mandate (www.cnbc.com)

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Amazon is seeing some employees quit instead of moving to a new state as part of relocation mandate::As Amazon tries to get employees back to the office, some staffers are being told to relocate to hubs in different states if they want to keep their jobs

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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The problem is you lose good employees this way, instead of the employees you should actually be letting go of.

And then those good employees go work for your competition. Oopsie!

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 year ago (6 children)

And then those good employees go work for your competition. Oopsie!

And Amazon's competition is...

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Target. Best Buy. Grocery store chains. Places like Homegoods and Overstock.com.

[–] sab@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Depending on the jobs, also Google, Microsoft, etc...

[–] FoxBJK@midwest.social 9 points 1 year ago

Any company that does any kind of logistics. You also don’t have to work for a direct competitor. If Amazon is on your resume you’ll have options.

The best employees are getting messages from recruiters all the time with lucrative offers to go elsewhere. It’s foolish to give them a reason to even consider those offers.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

In Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg we have a direct competitor called bol.com

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Google, Microsoft, IBM, and Alibaba compete in the cloud hosting market. eBay, Alibaba, Walmart, (insert any other online retailer) compete in the retail sales markets. Netflix, Hulu, Sling, Google, HBO Max all compete in the streaming TV market.

In addition to all of the above, there are numerous other industries that would be glad to hire competent IT staff who leave Amazon.

[–] MaybeItWorks@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

These appear to be predominantly corporate jobs. Those folks can go to either a tech company or a logistics company depending on their role. Their skillsets transfer just fine to other companies, competitors or not.

[–] SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The one that makes the decision sees all workers as replaceable cogs and the managers that know which people are the good ones are not consulted. We call that the "foie gras" style of management.

[–] MaybeItWorks@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Most of Amazon functions this way at this point. It didn’t used to be so bad, but things really went to shit with some belt tightening in 2017/2018 where management wasn’t thoughtful. It was more about networking than a meritocracy.