Amazon is forcing its corporate employees to return to the office five days a week – and they’re not happy about it.
Amazon employees irate after CEO announces mandatory return-to-office policy: ‘Take my money and leave?’
Staffers took to Slack to air their grievances after CEO Andy Jassy – who took the helm in 2021 – said in a note on Monday that employees have to return to full in-office work by January. “So if I go in 5x week, that means I can leave my laptop at work right? There’s no reason to bring it home,” one staffer fumed in an internal Slack channel seen by Business Insider, referencing Amazon’s intense work culture.
Jassy said the new mandate will operate like most office environments prior to the pandemic. It will be “understood” if an employee has an exceptional circumstance, like a child who is home sick, a house emergency or time spent on the road meeting with clients or partners.“Please do note that this is significantly more strict and out of its mind than many teams operated under pre-covid,” one employee wrote on Slack, according to BI. “This is not ‘going back’ to how it was before.
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