[NBJack]

This is really what's going on.

Many managers (at least the good ones) try to shield their folks from the uglier nuts and bolts of upper management. They would far rather focus on results rather than pressuring their folks to meet some arbitrary (and likely not even mathmatically correlated) goals around butts in seats.

Is Amazon in trouble? Are they really this willing to tighten the reins on their workforce for...what? Numbers that technically show people are showing up?

The ugly truth is that Amazon is probably just looking for ammunition to fire folks en masses without it being seen as a mass layoff.