If people quit themselves, they can get rid of a lot of workforce without having to lay them off.
They lose the chance to choose who stays and who goes, but if your bonuses are tied to quarterly results, it doesn't really matter for a quarter or two.
Best/good people on the team dropped. Myself included after 3 on-shore devs self “retired”. Team then consisted of soldiers, and a couple of off shore devs that did the bare minimum (ie, on shore fixed many of their mistakes, releases taking much longer than usual). Velocity of team sharply dropped. Organization and team turn over increased greatly.
Occasionally, get a ping from hiring manager to see if I’m interested in rejoining. But, RTO is still in effect so I decline any further discussion
That’s not good for public image and if I were a shareholder I’d be planning for an exit.
Jokes aside, I work at Amazon and complexity varies between teams.. but there are few things that can’t be done remotely. Imo the hybrid model works best.
To some of us, but not everyone. It may look less desperate than layoffs. It can be postured as happening for any number of strong-handed reasons and be called an act of powerful leadership, even if it's just desperate and stupid. Besides, other huge companies have done it already.
At this point, the use of companies like Amazon or Alibaba is kind of necessary to get by for most people. Even those who don't use it, are using it indirectly. Via using apps and sites running on Amazon. Via going to stores supplied by Amazon. And on and on and on. The tentacles are everywhere.
Not unlike other conglomerates, like Berkshire. But AWS’ big profit margins give Amazon a big upside.