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Amazon tells managers they can now fire employees who won't come into the office 3 times a week (www.businessinsider.com)

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Amazon tells managers they can now fire employees who won't come into the office 3 times a week::Amazon shared new guidelines that give managers a template for terminating employees over RTO.

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[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I keep hearing people making this argument.

Is the assumption that Amazon is ignoring their finance dept and that this is driven by the sunk cost fallacy? “We dumped a bunch of money into this, therefore we should continue to move forward with it.”

I ask because the appraised value of property is based on what other’s will likely pay for it. If no one else is wants to pay a lot of money for my office space, it doesn’t matter if I have 1 employees or 10,000 employees in that building.

[–] dtjones@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think you have the right idea but came to the wrong conclusion. Why would anyone buy office space if there is no value in employees coming to the office? Hint: they wouldn't.

Edited to add: these properties may become a liability on their books which would impact their ability to apply for or pay for loans, as well as other negatives for the company.

[–] Infynis@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of companies have long-term contracts for these office spaces that they can't get out of, so whether or not their workers are using the space, they have to pay for it. They should really just write it off as a loss, but I'm not too familiar with how that works. Maybe they can't.

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

They do write it off. The real estate theory of RTO doesn't hold water.