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Amazon drops its return-to-office plan and will now let most employees work from home indefinitely

Dominick Reuter
20 hours ago

Pour one out for the "office-centric culture."

In a Monday message to Amazon employees, CEO Andy Jassy said the company would no longer require corporate workers to return to the office.

"At a company of our size, there is no one-size-fits-all approach for how every team works best," Jassy said.

Before this week's announcement, Amazon was planning to require corporate and tech workers to be in the office at least three days per week starting in January 2022, unless given special permission by their manager. The original plan had been to return in September.

Now, Jassy said, "we're going to leave this decision up to individual teams."

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon- ... ly-2021-10
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The Ultimate List Of Remote Work Statistics for 2021

Jack Steward
Updated Oct 27, 2021

Remote work has been on the rise for the past few years but in 2020, with the sudden outbreak of a global pandemic, even the companies who didn’t believe in the power of telecommuting had no choice but to join the trend.

And for many, having to adjust to a completely new reality in a short period of time ended up being the silver lining during incredibly difficult times.

Remote work wasn’t so scary, after all.

Whether you’re an employer thinking about maintaining work-from-home policies even after the health crisis is over, or an employee starting to look for remote opportunities in their industry, there’s a lot you can learn about the universe of remote work.

Keep reading and discover 25 key remote work statistics for 2021!

https://findstack.com/remote-work-statistics/
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‘You Are Mommy Tracked to the Billionth Degree’
by Emily Peck
November 15, 2021

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/ ... ons-520601

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(Politico) When F, a 37-year-old media strategist, started working at a tech company based in Austin in June 2019, she negotiated a hybrid schedule. She would work from home Tuesdays and Thursdays so that she could spend more time throughout the day with her 15-month-old son.

This was pre-Covid 19, and F was the only person on the marketing team at her 30-person company who chose to work from home a few days a week. With a child that young, her priorities were different than those of many of her colleagues, who preferred not just to work together all day but also to socialize together afterwards. “I’m not going to be in an office from 8:30 to 5, and then [go to] happy hours and drinking party boats,” said F, who asked for anonymity to speak openly about her former employer.

In hindsight there were red flags. Her colleagues told her they thought it was “fascinating” she had children, she recalled. “The thing haunting [me] was, they kept saying, ‘We really want an adult in the room,’” she said. That “adult” was supposed to be her.

After a few months, it was clear something was off. She’d come into the office on a Friday and find out about a new direction for the business that everyone else already knew about. When she asked why she hadn’t been told, they’d say, “‘If you were here, you would know,’” F said.

When everyone started working from home during the pandemic, she was relieved. If the whole company was remote, then she’d finally be on equal footing. But things somehow got worse. She was left off team emails or excluded from Slack messages. It felt like gaslighting, she said; there was a lot of “I could’ve sworn I sent that to you.” Then deadlines became unmanageable, she said, with requests for work to be completed by the next day coming in at around 4:00 p.m.
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The Office Will Never Be the Same
Daniel Cubias
November 17, 2021

https://manomagazine.com/politics-repub ... ss-office/

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(Mano) So the pandemic is finally ending, and all of us are ready to return to the office—well, by “all of us” I mean white guys. And let’s face it, they’re the only ones who get a vote, right?

You see, recent surveys have shown that most corporate executives—still predominately white men—want to end all these touchy-feely flexible work schedules and this 21st-century telecommuting nonsense. They want to get back to their cushy offices where they can survey their kingdom of cubicle serfs and more effectively terrorize their employees. In fact, “executives are nearly three times more likely than non-executive employees to want to return to the office full-time.”

But the average Latino or Black office worker is not so thrilled at the idea, as studies show that the “desire for flexible work policies is strongest among employees of color.” There are several reasons for this, including the fact that ethnic minorities in corporate offices still face discrimination and suffer more stress than their white colleagues.

African Americans in particular are fans of telecommuting, because “remote work increases a feeling of belonging and makes it easier for Black employees to manage stress.” Perhaps this is why white employees are seven times more likely than Black employees to want a return to full-time office work.

I guess we don’t need to ask who put the white in white-collar.
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