[eckza]

> Boy these employees are about to get what looks like a very expensive lesson in expectation / risk management.

Is that really the takeaway, here?

[mamonster]

At least part of the takeaway here has to be that employees themselves bit as hard on the "Covid=new paradigm" idea as the employers themselves, and that now they are getting burned for it, just like the employers themselves.

[parthianshotgun]

Lowest resolution takeaway perhaps

[xwdv]

What else is there to takeaway? They knew they weren’t working for a remote-first company. They knew what their contract said. They played a dangerous game and now they’re finally burned. You cannot collect an Amazon salary living out in Idaho or Nebraska.

[bluGill]

While you cannot collect an Amazon salary out there - because Amazon won't pay you if you live there, you can collect a similar salary out there from other companies that just need good people and pay them well. Of course you will need to wade through the companies that figure since cost of living is less out there they should pay you less. However wages are competitive for full remote companies, so companies that allow full remote tend to not care where you live, they just pay enough to get the people they need.

Note, such companies do count what country you live in. You will make different amounts in US, India, Germany, and Mexico. For legal reasons people who live in a different country are not equivalent to each others.

[Adraghast]

Why not?

[cultureswitch]

I suppose an overly optimistic employee could have thought that remote work is supported by the data, therefore it would be likely for Amazon to adopt it.