Come 5 days a week or quit says Amazon

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To reiterate the usual list of potential un-publicized motives:<p>1. Indirect layoffs.<p>2. Retain favorable tax arrangement that have &quot;local jobs&quot; as a requirement.<p>3. Pressure from investors who have downtown rentals in their portfolio.<p>4. Peer pressure from others in executive social circles, everyone else is doing it too so it must be true, etc.<p>5. Managers having problems either evaluating employees on work-merits or else proving to their own bosses that they&#x27;re doing something valuable.

Some other big name companies have got it correct. “at your managers discretion” you know the old saying. You don’t leave a toxic workplace you leave a toxic manager.

RTO mandates are layoffs in disguise, and the NLRB is starting to look hard at employers who may be trying to skirt the WARN act.