Talk about saying the quiet part out loud - this is a severance-free layoff, nothing more and nothing less.

I’m guessing that is what they want. The pin head execs that run these corporations couldn’t create a healthy workplace if they knew what that meant.

Employees know that and plenty of them will leave. They will also find tons of companies that don’t implement archaic policies that only exist to justify real estate investments. Amazon is going to hit a point where the pool of available talent is thin because no one wants to work there, or already has and left because of how toxic it is.

I’ve never heard a single positive comment about being a dev at Amazon. Not one. Every dev I know that has worked there said it was a hellscape.