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coliveira10/12/20241 replyview on HN

Yes, Amazon needs people to fill their expensive offices in Seattle, or otherwise explain to investors that they wasted billions of dollars building new offices that were used less than 5 years.


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bruce51110/12/2024

>> otherwise explain to investors that they wasted billions of dollars building new offices that were used less than 5 years.

So what? I mean companies write down things all the time. "We've revalued our $billion office and adjusted our balance sheet to match. Cause was a global pandemic which we considered as a risk factor in 2019, but it was negligible."

Stock will drop a % or two for a week, then recover and move on (especially as the Amazon machine continues to print cash.)

Microsoft wrote off the Nokia purchase with a shrug and the world just moved on.

Explaining a change of work environment to investors seems like a pretty minor bump, not a major factor in decision making.

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