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You're seriously claiming that the EU cannot compete with US companies because you can't credibly threaten to fire people to show that you're serious about a policy decision?

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I think they're claiming that it's important to have a real, credible, well communicated threat of consequences for not following the mandate.

No one would bother, because:

1. In Europe salaries are not worth personal sacrifices

2. No compay aims for IPO, few are public

Maybe, if you'd hire only desperate people from Spain, Italy, Poland, Greece, and Romania, AND they all had a mortgage... then squeeze like this would work.

>In Europe salaries are not worth personal sacrifices

That's exactly it!!

What kind of shit company culture do people have where you need threats to implement a simple, clear-cut technical decision?

Struggling to think of a culture that leads to excellent results as consistently as Amazon

Apart from results (for whom?) being not the only thing to judge a compan culture for, I am pretty damn sure that Amazon does not, in fact, rely primarily on constant explicit threats of firing people to make people just fucking do what their boss tells them to do.

All. I worked with many top tier companies and policy adherence is null without reinforcement; this is the reality, without motivation everyone ignores policies and decisions.

There are many other forms of motivation and reinforcement other than explicit threats of firing pople, and most of them are less aggravating. In fact I very much doubt Amazon actually does that constantly, and I also doubt that it was the key reinforcement in this specific case, even if it wasn't simply an exaggeration.

Refusing to do what you're told will in fact get you fired in most European companies as well. I actually witnessed that happening not too long ago. So what's even the argument here?

Some use the carrot, some use the stick, and some use both.

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