Someone pays, but Andy won't RTO after that slip.

Reports depicting the grueling work conditions in Amazon warehouses, especially during seasonal sales, have continually dogged Amazon. Workers report long hours, timed bathroom breaks, surveillance of work productivity/speed, intense isolation from others, physically demanding quotas, and other difficult conditions to work under. These working conditions take a physical and mental toll on the workers, who are often treated more as a data set or a robot than as humans. Amazon’s troubling labor abuses aren’t limited to their warehouses either. Amazon’s corporate offices have their share of toxic workplace cultures too. A 2015 expose on Amazon’s offices described an office that prioritized productivity and efficacy over all else, pushing their employees to physical, mental, and emotional limits. One employee was sent on a business trip the day after a miscarriage; another was put on a “performance improvement plan” while struggling with breast cancer. Employees shared experiences such has having their personal and working lives monitored, demanding work schedules, and a competitive workplace culture where employees were encouraged to sacrifice themselves – and their coworkers – in order to advance.

Whoever can pay for the "best" lawyer wins, and I suspect that will be Amazon. Cash trumps rights.

Well, Amazon apparently doesn't care according to these legal cases filed with the EEOC and NLRB. HR will just retaliate against the employees that complained in order to save the company. The policies will stay until the next management shakeup. Even if Amazon gets fined $10M, that's chump change. They can raise the price of Prime to offset whatever lawsuits, and have consumers pay instead.

What if one day... Andy Jassy slips on the floor in his cozy office, breaks his hip, develops complex regional pain syndrome, and requires speech therapy. Will he be making daily trips to his office or.. ?

How do you know that ALL of them worked in the office?

What if the disability doesn't involve the use of a wheelchair? Vision impairment, Learning disabilities, Physical disability, Autism, Traumatic brain injury, Hearing Impairments, ADHD, Intellectual disability, Epilepsy?

1Password7 has a local password store. The later versions are subscription-based ripoffs of Bitwarden and don't run standalone.

Might have to pirate 1Password7 and get its older Chrome extension. Otherwise Bitwarden does the same for free.

So many states, rules, interpretations. Sometimes it's worth getting a lawyer, but it might not even matter once an affected worker slips into another job.

Reduction in Financials. Time to fire Brian Olsavsky. Taking the easy way out.

Well, this crap company pays $500K/yr to SDE's with 10+ years experience. Many other companies aren't far below that. Each have their own issues.

Even if that's the case, many of the duds will get PIP'd and recruiting efforts will repeat to seek new experienced and overqualified AI/ML employee resources. In the process, Amazon will get leaner as a way to rectify their piss poor financials. It's partly a leadership problem v.s. only macroeconomics. Apple didn't overhire, nor did Adobe. Yes, plenty of talented resources are quitting because there are obviously better deals for them with higher pay, no forced RTO/relocation crap, and Amazon really couldn't care less.

Brian Olsavsky (CFO) reports negative free cash flow and declines in year-over-year growth in most business units. Guess what? Andy hired too many resources (many not well qualified). What happens? A political game of trap - eliminate employee resources in the most economically efficient way: 1) Do rolling layoffs over 8 months to force departures (with severance pay). 2) Make it impossible for employees to get work done (when they can't commit to a forced commute or relocate) - claim they voluntarily resigned. 3) Make it miserable for employees who prefer to work efficiently from home by forcing those employees to RTO. 4) Focus on GenAI to eliminate roles. 5) Reduce employee morale to encourage further voluntary departures. Anyways, there will be plenty of companies ready to scoop up these displaced employees, so no one really cares. Just a number.

Plus, 1Password will make you login before you can do anything with their app (including accessing passwords) regardless of any locally cached data. The Standalone version that they won't sell anymore provided a local vault option. So you're basically forced to login to their Cloud and have a vault be stored on their cloud (i.e. sync). If that dies, you're screwed. If the company goes out of business, then you're really screwed.