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

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

  • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    133·
    1 year ago

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

    And Amazon’s competition is…

    • FoxBJK@midwest.socialEnglish
      9·
      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.

    • MaybeItWorks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      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.

    • RaoulDook@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      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.