Amazon is done debating return to office; Robot umps update; GeekWire Summit sneak peek
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🗓️ 2 September 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy made it clear in a recent internal meeting that he wants employees to "disagree and commit" to the company's policy of working three days in the office, and find somewhere else to work if it doesn't work for them. We discuss the news in our first segment this week, and ponder why Amazon seems to be getting a bigger backlash than other big companies implementing similar policies.
In our second segment, we consider new changes in the MLB automated ball/strike system for Triple-A games, as an update to Seattle Mariners CEO John Stanton's comments in a recent interview with our GeekWire colleague Taylor Soper.
And finally, we give a sneak preview of the upcoming GeekWire Summit, scheduled for Oct. 19 at the iconic Seattle movie theater formerly known as the Cinerama.
With GeekWire co-founders John Cook and Todd Bishop. Edited and produced by Curt Milton. Theme music by Daniel L.K. Caldwell.
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| 0:00.0 | I was alluding to something very specific that you brought up the belief that some engineers and developers were taking advantage of remote work and work from home to actually work multiple jobs. |
| 0:13.4 | There were stories of that. I've never come across anyone who was doing it. Well, you have your AI clone that's putting in code for one company, or six companies, for that matter. |
| 0:23.4 | You're a supervisor of your own fleet of bots. |
| 0:26.5 | Making $300,000 each at each of these organizations. |
| 0:30.7 | And you don't have to pay the AI bot much. |
| 0:32.9 | Exactly. |
| 0:41.4 | Welcome to Geekwire. |
| 0:43.2 | I'm Geekwire co-founder Todd Bishop. |
| 0:45.1 | And I'm Geekwire co-founder John Cook. |
| 0:51.8 | We are coming to you from Geekwire in Seattle, where we get to report each day on what's happening around us in business, technology, and innovation. |
| 0:53.7 | What happens here matters everywhere. |
| 0:55.0 | And every week on this show, we talk about some of the most interesting stories in the news. Coming up later on, John, |
| 1:00.0 | I've got an update for you. News emerged this past week on something that John Stanton, the |
| 1:05.7 | Mariners CEO, alluded to on a past Geekwire podcast. The news emerged this past week on exactly what he was |
| 1:12.4 | talking about, I believe. So we'll have that coming up later on in the show. But first, |
| 1:16.7 | John, I just want to say, if you are not comfortable with the first topic of this podcast this |
| 1:22.7 | week, I would just ask you to please disagree and commit. |
| 1:28.0 | All right? |
| 1:29.1 | Are you good with this? |
| 1:29.6 | Yes. |
| 1:31.2 | I love that leadership principle. |
| 1:34.6 | This is, this was fascinating. |
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