Working from Home, tax and Multinationals

[Towger]

Amazon have a problem in that they hired AWS staff like mad starting from the Covid lockdowns and continuing until a year or so ago. Bringing everyone back to to office is a cheap way of reducing staff numbers.

 

[newirishman]

Have Amazon ordered Irish staff back to the office, or is this just a US thing?

Globally, incl Ireland

 

[Leo]

Looks like the tide is fast going out for the whole working from home culture especially among the multinationals.

I note the most vocal are those looking to shed staff, but of course that could be a coincidence.

 

[Purple]

Lots of people loudly proclaimed that people would never return to pubs or live music again and that was also the new normal

Lots of people lacked perspective during Covid. My mother asked me if I though that the restaurants and pubs would ever open again. I said that they opened after the Black Death which killed one person in three (in many places one in two) in Europe so yes, they'll probably open again after Covid. Massive social and societal changes imposed upon us due to temporary external circumstances tend to be as temporary as the circumstances.