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And, now that they don't have to be first, Amazon is in:

Amazon updates remote work guidance, plans to ‘return to an office-centric culture as our baseline’

https://www.geekwire.com/2021/amazon-updates-remote-work-gui...

oof.

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Today is a big disaster for those who foresaw changes in the workplace. Now we have only tier 2 companies (Dropbox/Spotify) who have gone full remote.

Spotify didn't go "full remote"

> ...we are giving employees the opportunity to elect a Work Mode—whether they’d prefer to work mostly at home or in the office...

https://newsroom.spotify.com/2021-02-12/distributed-first-is...

They also have a 17-year lease on space in 4 World Trade Center.

Microsoft has told staff that they will have the option of working from home permanently with manager approval.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54482245

"with manager approval" is just a decoy. won't work out. if your whole team is in the office it's much harder for you to be remote. it must be set as company policy otherwise just a handful will do it and likely suffer for it as their teams won't take all the measures to make it work well and they'll be at a promotion disadvantage compared to people that get face time.

and "with manager approval" remote isn't really new. there were already people working remotely before the pandemic.

Shopify has also gone full remote: https://www.shopify.com/careers/work-anywhere.

Disclaimer: I work there.

We shall see, but it feels like just a tug in the direction of in-office after 13 months (for the big west coast companies) of things going the other way. I don't think anyone was ever expecting huge FAAMG companies to start selling off their office buildings. I'm mostly interested to see if the guidance loosens for hiring remote employees as well as how much push their is from the top to have managers push their employees to work 5 days a week in the office.

Personally, I'm still expecting to see a much higher percentage of time spent working from home at this time next year compared to the beginning of 2020.

Indeed. Large companies like FAANG have invested heavily in their offices, I can kind of see why they don't want to throw that investment away. Hence why they want people back in those plush offices.

> throw that investment away

Sunk cost fallacies etc

Tier 2 in what exactly?

In this sense I'd imagine.

https://finance.yahoo.com/chart/GOOG#eyJpbnRlcnZhbCI6IndlZWs...

But no graph available for ethics.

Spotify Samsung app is still audio only

Salesforce?

It's a lie. The offices are open and very full where they are allowed to (SK, JP, AU, NZ).

For Amazon it might make more sense as they are a retailer that ships goods.

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