[dimtion]

Amazon WFH policy is still flexible though. For example, in my team the current policy is to work wherever we feel the most productive and happiest.

You could have potentially moved within the company if that was only decision factor.

[alistairSH]

Maybe? I recently interviewed and nobody could tell me what the policy would be in a few months.

“It’s WFH today, but that’ll probably change. And you can always take our bus from your local AWS office to the office where the rest of the team may or may not be because we don’t know what our policy will be.”

I’d expect a company of Amazon’s size and stature to have a better plan than “whatever your VP wants this week.”

[mmmmkay]

exactly this. I'd been at Amazon for 5 years, so I know how quickly these things can change and I wasn't about to get caught in the crossfires.

Oh, that and I doubled my comp leaving ;)

[otterley]

Why? The world changes around us, and the best businesses are capable of adapting to suit. It doesn’t make any sense to make promises that one can’t keep. They can’t promise that some teams can WFH forever, because it might not make sense forever. Nor should every team have the same policy, because different teams do different things.

I think it makes more sense to be non-committal than to make promises and then have to renege on them later. The latter makes people much more justifiably upset.

[fooey]

All I hear with the waffling is "we want to force everyone back, but we're not sure we can get away with it"

[quadrifoliate]

From what I hear, policy in general is wildly inconsistent within Amazon. I have heard all sort of stories from people at Amazon ranging from "world's best boss" to "horrific and Dilbertesque".

[worik]

> ...policy is to work wherever we feel the most productive and happiest

That is interesting. I like that idea, in theory.

In practise I find the promise I have made to an employer to work/be available certain hours very useful. My time off is off, on is on.