Seattle traffic headaches as Amazon returns to work | FOX 13 Seattle
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- Starting this week, Amazon workers are required to return to the office full-time, likely bringing tens of thousands back to Seattle.
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I would like to thank Amazon for implementing their new RTO policies. We have been able to hire a number of really talented AWS engineers that likely would have not considered it without that mandate.
Good. Take the cry babies that can’t show up to the office 5 days a week.
“I won’t work at this job unless I’m forced to go into the office every day” said no potential employee ever.
Especially when that RTO policy is supported by the uncaring state with their overcrowded highways leading to daily 3+ hour round-trip commutes of less than 40 miles.
RTO = Brain Drain. Top talent leaves because another employer will offer them WFH. RTO limits Amazon's potential in the long term.
@@Thepriest39 The only reason Amazon is mandating a full return to office is because they invested significantly into their office infrastructure. There is an entire sector of buildings in Seattle that Amazon built out for themselves. Then Covid19 hit and workers realized they didn't always need to be in the office to get their work done effectively due to remote work mandates.
Now the rest of us who actually do need to work physically on site will have to deal with the additional traffic in all forms of transit. Your skull must be empty or your brain didn't develop past childhood to actually believe this is a good thing.
WA should try and have traffic lights on the same street go in unison! What's the point of moving one block and then the light changes? It causes so much more congestion with the selfish drivers of WA.
Pedestrians
@@TheFoolintherainn
Screw them
Couldn’t be more right! Most don’t even use sensors, they’re just timed wrong
Everything in Seattle is purposely designed to punish drivers. They want zero cars and magical trains to take you everywhere
Maybe start giving out tickets for those that choose to block the intersection so they don’t have to wait for the next light cycle. Happens every day and I’ve never once seen someone get more than a lot of hand gestures for it.
This is an absolute win… for commercial real estate
That’s all it’s about. We all go in and are on zoom all day doing the exact same thing as at home office. Some of my blue collar friends loathe return to office as they say they hit so much traffic now.
RTO is a tremendous waste of resources and will be seen as a horrible decision from blind leadership.
Nope. It's way overdue! Enough slacking !
@@spg5658Amen
@@spg5658so you are saying you slacked when you were supposed to be working at home? That’s you…others actually worked.
@@larrymitchell6470 I worked many decades and never once remotely. Retired a while back. What I'm saying is that most folks are not truly working. It's obvious. I see them where I live all the time. Anyone with eyes knows this.
Return to work is so stupid. Companies ran just fine for the last 4 years working remotely. Now I'll have a 4 hour commute each day (about 2 hours each way as I live down in Graham and have to commute to Seattle now). And no, I don't live anywhere near a bus or train route.. it would take me over 30 minutes just to get to one. Good luck getting my productivity when I'm tried and irritated with road rage by the time I get to work.
Wow. Sounds like a YOU problem. Historically people moved closer to work and dealt with that, not the company catering to your flaws. If getting to and from work is a problem, you have options: move closer/ suck it up/ or quit!
@@crash8926 Now you'll actually have to punch a clock instead of writing in all you're hours for time you claimed you worked.. I'm sure your overtime hours will bel less now.. we know how hard it is to actually work a full day.
@@newavedave53 You must have me confused with those that want to work from home. I work at shipyard bud, that at home work stuffs for the feeble.
Just quit.
Its designed to make people quit voluntarily
Good win for commercial real estate lobbyists. This has Nothing to do with employee productivity.
Amazon employee here, it’s not till Jan 15th
Not true, Jan 2
@ maybe for you, but most aren’t till the 15th due to a lot of areas not being ready
@zwiggle-bear I'd say that's most team/org/location specific than what the actual announcement is.
your days of freedom are numbered.
Oh how we missed the slow left lane camping techies out on the roads.
Don't blame the techies.... It's you idiot drivers that don't know how to drive just because it's raining 😂😂😂
We need to get Rid of Amazon. Plain and simple.
Government contradicts itself. The best way to boost the environment is to lesson traffic. Especially stand still traffic.
Best way to do that is remote work. It's better for workers, the organization, and the environment.
The fact that CEO'S want workers back in office reveals the truth that it's not about productivity but control. 🤓
I thought Amazon was all about saving the planet. 😅
amazon dont ask you to drive to work. they just require you to back in person 5 days a week. so, if you really want to save the planet, you can walk, run or bike or share ride.... or even quit and stay at your sofa at home. your choice
@@777giftthis exactly
Right, people will walk 5 hours in the rain 😂. This is the USA, distances are huge and transit limited. @@777gift
@@777giftThere’s zero reason with modern tech and communication to be in an office all day. Personally I’ve kept over 40k miles off my car, including the emissions, oil changes, wear and tear on car, less traffic on roads and we still get our job done and productivity rose. Our employer has to make us take sick and vacation days cause useage of those plummeted cause people are happier and don’t use until really need them. Old way of thinking that folk need to be in a unproductive office most days dealing with distraction
Bezos has like a 500 million yacht. Don’t think he cares other than marketing make believe for the masses.
I cancelled all my Amazon subscriptions - I protest with my wallet.
Agree, I've never bought an Amazon product in my life
@@Living-Hz Yes you have. You just didn't buy it from Amazon.
@@Klaatu2Too I live in Japan so I doubt it lol
Wow you guys are soooo cool.
@@masonnoodles thank you 😊
Cancel Amazon.
The hybrid scenario is a great option. Resolves the traffic, pollution, energy, commerce issues and keeps employees happy.
Still no light rail up I405 corridor north of Bellevue. I used to spend 3 hours a day commuting Bothell-Bellevue for 5 years. Never again.
Ever since Amazon moved to my area I have had to change my commute just to avoid their traffic.
Scamazon - causing traffic problems everywhere
most people will continue to opt for avoiding downtown all together. and btw... that arena isnt new.
😂 I was like new arena?
New/Improved .. They were working on completing construction in 2020.
They should rename the city to Ant farm .
We’re already considering “Fentanylopolis”
Make the local economy work by forcing employees to spend the $ they had saved working remotely. Sad.
dear citizens. you can pass a law in your state that requires all employers operating in that state to offer remote work options ???
you don't need company policy to enact that, companies are required by law to operate within the state and federal laws they work in
Damn. If too many drive in, they'll have to resort to formal layoffs.
While the rest of us returned to work 4 years ago!
Traffic is insane, cities should mandate that all employees who can work remote, do so. The amount of waste (pollution, time, vehicle expenses, etc) is insane. If these companies won't be part of the solution, the cities should make remote work a requirement
Cities don't have the ability to mandate a company not have people come into the office. I understand the sentiment, but it will help the smaller businesses in those areas that depend on the increase in population. It is definitely a give and take. I'm not going to like the extra traffic since I live in the affected part of town, and prefer that they don't go to the mandatory 5 days a week....but there's nothing city can do about it if they want the companies to be here and support the city.
You really want to force teachers to teach remotely again? That was a colossal disaster both for he students and the teacher as I can speak from experience as I have been a teacher since 2000. You might want to think before you write.
@@anthonymarble7028 yes, my entire post was about teachers...oh wait, I never mentioned teachers... I'm 100% positive this can be figured out, without reworking our k-12 into remote teaching. College is a different story, i was able to take over 25 credits, since the classes were remote. Again, a common sense approach, versus our only choice is freeway gridlock...
@@300lbcanary2 it's gridlock, insanity, and unsustainable if our area continues to grow in population. Considering our climate, and how people are leaving the central US, we're likely to be their destination.
Sounds more like a fatal flaw of automobiles all the congestion they create
Amazon, you are welcome to move your corporate office to Downtown Dallas. Dallas has all the Office space and infrastructure you need, including tons of highways and 160 miles of rail. Downtown Dallas will welcome you.
Time for people to get out of their cars and start using public transit. No masks required and you can nap or read a book. It's a mindset thing.
This is an inconsiderate statement. Public transit doesn't work for everyone.
Plus you get complementary secondhand meth & fenty as well as free stabbings. You can also cancel your gym membership because the escalators never work!
Those public transit system where loons set people on fire?? Or push people in front of trains? In a city with so many loons they actually had that stupid CHAZ zone and looted it to even stay up & defunded police????
Mercer St can become a nightmare in South Lake Union.
Not isolated to just that street, but Mercer is definetly a top contender.
Intersection of Fairview and Mercer St!
It already is 😂
This can’t be worse than Houston?! Is it?! I was thinking of moving to Seattle because of a job
Seattle (Washington State) although the traffic can be bad and the people can be rude is a beautiful place to live but, Check out the cost of living before you commit. Also the big, wet, dark is a real thing.
Most people who move here from sunny and warm places don’t do very well. They struggle
Nothing in WA state is worse than anywhere in Texas, as a rule.
Thanks to their anti-police, pro-drug addict policies Seattle is a failing city which should be thankful Amazon is still there while more and more businesses close up. Earlier this year Starbucks closed their most profitable downtown location in the city because the location was not safe for employees and customers. I have lived a few miles in south of Seattle since the late 1950s. It's really sad what Seattle as done to itself and the rest of the county.
@@whimsicalhamster88 LOL. I live in south King County so I know better.
There are so many brainwashed people in these comments. Work from home should be encouraged as much as possible because it benefits everyone. The people who don't have to go in to do their jobs can relax at home, and those like me who do have to go in have much less traffic to deal with. It's a win-win.
Most people dont want to go back because of the commute. I dont think it has much to do with anything else. I know when I worked in Seattle I lived there. Now I live in Tacoma and I would never work in Seattle...its just too much of a commute, now the traffic? Nightmare
Let them take the light rail!
...if only Seattle had built... infrastructure... Oh, wait: this is Washington. Texans laugh at this.
How are the border crossers that your state doesn't have the balls to stop? Everyone laughs at your weak ass state
Texas has abyssmal infrastructure. Near zero public stransport options and 100% reliant on car/roads.
Seattle is building new infrastructures
Who cares what Texas thinks?
@@killbocksTexas SUCKS 🤮
Take your light rail, see how that's works😂
Sucks in Seattle. Too many bad actors.
You got to do what you got to do.
Might be a waste but at least housing out in the sticks might become more affordable. 600k for a shack out in hills is disgusting and it's the remote workers fault.
Good, get to work.
Seriously? You don't think it's bad enough already? Give me a break.
Nothing is as bad as it is now.
Look at public transit when possible if you don’t want to be stuck in traffic.
Good
They should all commute on sound transit
👍👍👍
We have really great transit... hopefully many will use it. Once the East Link connector is done, that should help a bunch, too. But that's a whole year away.
Sir. All mass transit in the Seattle area is nasty, gross, and dangerous.
I strongly disagree with you bud
Took Metro for 2 years. Worst commutes I've ever had.
@@daveymcc1421 First off, I'm not a sir (my name is Erica)... also, I ride transit every day as I live in the city car-free. More misinformation to say ALL transit is dangerous.
@@bonedaddy7297 It certainly can depend on where you live and where you have to get to... light rail is pretty awesome if it gets you where you need to go.
That reporters hand movements are extremely distracting.
What? No remote jobs for Amazon box kickers? We are going on strike!
Rest in peace Matt and Lauren. 3x kings for life
Sync the lights, standardize the turning formats, ditch the empty trolleys and their useless lane. Problem alleviated.
@@youtubecensors5419 the road design is intentional to keep people trapped in traffic, promoting alternative transportation that they wasted billions on. Encourages people to spend more time downtown, spending more on local businesses (meals, retail, parking) tax revenue! It’s like a casino without the safety and security. Eventually you’ll move there and give up
This is a land use/commercial real estate problem. Traffic engineers can't do much to wipe their axx until they decide to ditch their cars and take public transit instead
Excellent
How will this affect those remote workers who are living in a different country....?
Damn that’s a lot of employees. But oh well a lot of us have to do our work at an actual site
Maybe there should be a way to get around that doesn't require every individual to be in a 5000lb steel cage
I live 10 minutes from my office, reverse commute.
So they want people to waste money on stupid restaurants they don't need, use more gas and pollute, waste their time in traffic, and be away from their families more.
Great plan.
Normality then
I work remote permanently so glad. Don’t own a car.
Those green companies magically OK with more fossil fuel cars on road in traffic.
Many will be going into the office to go on zoom all day. Sell cloud based stock if u have it. If remote is possible then work remote. Traffic is not needed.
Stingy company.
Did you know Amazonian only get one free company issued coffee per day and you have to badge to get it? And parking is $28 per day for employees but free for the public after 4? Real weird priorities there😂
I thought Amazon push back because of not enough desk.
That IS GOING TO BE ONE BIG MESS!
Have to prop up local small businesses which only exist to extract money from workers forced to be there. Capitalism at its finest.
How? How do you just return to work without any contract after all those protests
Use Google to avoid Amazon traffic.
Why didn’t they do this 4 years ago 😂
I mean....at least it will liven up downtown a bit. I'm new to Seattle, and the energy around SLU is so weird and honestly kind of disappointing.
Come down to Olympia! Traffic ain’t so bad down here.
No jobs down there
Big traffic??? We have already big traffic everyday . Its good for business let restaurants work and deliver
I really hope downtown Seattle comes back. It really was a great downtown prior to covid.
Actually, before the "CHOP/CHAZ" ridiculousness; more so than Covid.
Stop this nonsense. There is nothing wrong with downtown. This is a myth and yall crazy. Go cry a river somewhere else. Just because you saw some random azz person post online that Seattle was dying doesn't mean it is 😂😂😂
It wasn't. No one wanted to deal with Mercer and no one wanted to shop even on weekend there.
I use to just go there every weekend on a Saturday afternoon to enjoy seeing the people shopping and atmosphere. I was an office worker in a dreary South end office. It was enjoyable but with the way it is now with the boarded store fronts and all I stopped going. I do admit the new developments by the market is cool. I will give it some progress.
Amazon should be directly funding half the light rail and bus expansions if their business contributes to that much traffic.
There are no backups behind you.
Oh no people have to go back to work 😅
Im a truck driver for the Teamsters. I don't get to work from home in my pajamas. So Amazon workers have to report to work? So sad. Cry me a river. If the traffic is slower, then I make more money
Exactly
You also don't have to work offshore for weeks on an oil rig. You also don't have to work out in the elements upgrading, maintaining, and repairing electrical line. We all have different jobs, and they all have their own requirements for what the working conditions *need* to be, and those conditions are based on what needs to be done to complete the job. I'm an office worker; I don't work in your truck going down the road; I'm in a comfy, air-conditioned office with easy access to a bathroom anytime I need it. Is that fair to you?!
Your opening sentence made your argument flawed…”truck driver”. You selected a field that requires you to be out on the road, the internet and the cloud and zoom have created the ability to do everything for office workers in their home. Many now just go into the office to appease commercial real estate owners and nothing more as they sit in their cubicle and log into zoom and do work on the cloud…because that tech allows it. Similar to how one day Trucks will be autonomous and need input remotely from time to time. Right now many blue collar workers and emergency services LOVE less traffic.
Truck drivers and software engineers are in the same class. You're not supposed to point fingers at each other. Isn't the purpose of joining a union to fight against capitalism?
Oh boooohooooo. People having to actually work and be accountable for their work production..
Small business really profit on misery. Then they beg for support.
Agreed. Some of them will resent the return.
What a foolish thing to say. I’m not for making them work in the office but your statement is asinine.
you make no sense
You mean corporations and banks who have loans tied to these commercial real estate buildings.
Fix potholes and cracks on I5 plz .....
Yeah, I'm sure that's the cause for traffic. Not even watching the video....cmon now.
hahahaha no more WFH from Caribbean or beaches.
Everyone looking forward to the gridlock and highway traffic madness again.
We have all seen the reports of Amazon's just-walk-out *technology* and Zoox self-driving *technology* actually being handled by masses of low-cost workers over in India. That 5 day return to office actually means they want 20 percent of the US corporate workers to LEAVE without having to do another round of Layoffs and severance payouts, to be replaced by much cheaper labor in India offices. Good for the 'efficiency' report to shareholders but bad for US workers. Brought to you by the company famous for pey-in-bottles and crying-at-desks. ;-)
Should prolly talk to Amazon bout this since they the ones forcing us back
HA. Hamsters...
More people commuting to the office for no reason.
It's called WORK! People have been slacking for four years now. Get back to work!
@@spg5658uh huh, sorry you slacked at home. We didn’t.
@@larrymitchell6470 nope. Never once had a remote job. Went to work everyday for many decades.
@@spg5658 Someone just betrayed their class and decided to be a dog for capitalists
The west side of the state is overpopulated thanks to all the Californians moving up here
Are we not all one nation. Segregating Americans from state origins doesn’t address a solution.
Commiefornians largely moved up here to work for Amazon, Microsoft, and the related tech companies.
That density is nothing compared to other major cities. Seattle just failed to build a good public transit system
Wow that’s crazy you actually have to GO to work… lmao welcome to the real world 😂
Exactly
Clearly, what's needed is more bike lanes.
BOOHOO!YOU GOT TO GO BACK TO WORK AT THE OFFICE?TRY BEING ON YOUR FEET COOKING PIZZAS?7HOURS ON MY FEET,CONSTAN!YOU GET NO COMPASSION FROM ME!
This is a world problem! We all have to deal with this now!
Out with the blue in with the new. Your head will spin how much better things get and how quickly.
It's about time... Enough of this scamming "working from home" nonsense.
You really want more cars on the road? Really?
People can be far more productive at home. I was. I was able to put in longer hours, innovate more, and focus more. Offices are toxic now. No offices, no cubes, barely any partitions between you and others. People who I didn't work with right across from me chattering or running meetings all day. Focus? Who can focus with that.
So quit and go work a construction job. They are always hiring @@two_dog
Exactly
@@two_dogmost people aren't working. That's the problem. You are not the norm
Hysterical!
Dumb.
Amazon can go somewhere else.
I don't know why any business would stay in Seattle if they don't have to.
😭 😢 😿 😿 😭
First world problems.
Well all the impulsive people who moved to the suburbs to exacerbate the urban sprawl and environmental damage are just going to have to think about their decisions while they sit in traffic in their own personal metal box burning gas and money.
So more people should live in the city?
@ yeah … if we didn’t spend so much on suburban sprawl in this state we would have great infrastructure and live efficient lives in a vibrant city.
They work at Amazon corporate. They drive electric or hybrid
What about the people who live in the suburbs up north and take the light rail 🚈 to work in downtown Seattle?
They just finished building the new light rail stations up north. And they are busier than ever with the downtown workers who live in the suburbs up north.
Are you angry at them too?
@ good then they can crank up the ol electricity bill each month and spend their time in their metal box instead of somewhere they would rather be!
Just take transit like a normal person. Driving a car into downtown is stupid.
That SUCKS!
No public transport option and even if you live in Cap Hill or surrounding neighborhoods, be expectected to have a 20-30min+ commute. This is largely because top execs don't want to see the commercial real estate market collapse and want to micromanage workers on a daily basis.
This is what happens when those idiots create chaos in people’s lives so they can’t think or live! Shame on Amazon!
Let Luigi fix it
It’s more people in. The restaurants and businesses. It’ll be great! The media hates cars
It's about time! WAY OVERDUE! Enough slacking!!!!
Welcome back to the real world. I'm not sure why some middle manager thinks it's a right to work from home. If your employer says come back, you come back. Otherwise I'm pretty sure someone out there will be wiling to take your job in a labor market like this one, where quite a few people are getting laid off. If you think you can find something better go ahead. But my impression is that steadily more companies are moving in this direction.
That's easy. Anyone that works for Amazon and drives must buy a special pass that costs $500 a month. That's it. Now, let's see how many of them will want to drive to work. Problem solved. You can thank me later.
Why are all the big tech companies centralized here anyway? Move to other cities that have better infrastructure!
You want this economy to shrink?
Other cities have no talents. You can't expect those high school dropouts to develop cutting-edge technology
All I’m imagining is the flourishing business for lunch rush and a booming economy , WIN