Technology

59204 readers

2892 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

412

Amazon is making its employees come back to the office five days a week (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 month ago by AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world

93 comments fedilink hide all child comments

(page 2) 44 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] _____@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Inb4 my company follows suit. Just like they want to with IT, AI, Cloud infrastructure (we own our stack almost entirely).

[–] LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.org 2 points 1 month ago

Good guy Amazon: Makes employees return in-person to prevent them from using proprietary remote work software.

[+] gencha@lemm.ee -28 points 1 month ago (30 children)

I really love to work from home. But I also understand IT security is dramatically complicated by user's working on their private network connection or even private client devices. Teamwork also suffers noticably in some professions.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I also understand IT security is dramatically complicated by user's working on their private network connection or even private client devices.

As otherwise mentioned, it's actually straightforward.

I work in the daytime on some pretty well-secured stuff; not "secret squirrel" but "people data" stuff. There's a LOT of forms to sign, and they want to ensure you're not working on a shared patio but in a real, dedicated office space that is ergonomically optimal and private, with a few other rules, but the effort that started as a panic on COVID day 1 proved workable and they're going with it. They sold the offices in the dank ugly building. And this org is actually insanely cautious and works with cautious entities, and even they could work it.

At night I work for a different company on different shipped gear... and a KVM switch to go from one set to the other. They're all segregated and secure, and the night job I've had for 22 years with only two invites to fly down to the office for a visit in that time. Barbecues, actually.

I have a lovely view of the river.

It works. You have to be sensible and secure, and then you're golden.

[–] gencha@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

I don't even disagree with you. However...

There are thousands of people at home with access to privileged information and they have never heard of a KVM switch. It's insane how blind to reality some people here are. If you have never been in an online meeting where a participant had their camera off, mic on, was AFK, and their child fucked around on the laptop, because they never lock it, then you really have no fucking idea about security at scale.

Just because some people here love to work from home, doesn't mean it applies to an entire corporation as large as Amazon

load more comments (29 replies)

load more comments