SINGAPORE: Tech large Amazon is delaying its five-day return-to-office policy, slated to start out in January, for 1000’s of employees resulting from a scarcity of workplace house.
The corporate lately knowledgeable some employees in no less than seven United States cities – together with Austin, Dallas and Phoenix – that their return dates can be pushed again by as much as 4 months, reported Bloomberg, citing folks accustomed to the scenario.
In line with Bloomberg, Amazon employs over 350,000 company workers globally, largely within the US. It’s unclear what number of employees will likely be affected by the delay.
Workers in Dallas have been instructed there can be inadequate workplace house for all of them to come back in 5 days every week till March or April, whereas some employees on the firm’s Midtown Manhattan workplace wouldn’t have house for full-time work till Might, sources instructed Bloomberg.
Amazon has additionally knowledgeable it employees in Atlanta, Nashville and Houston that it didn’t have sufficient house for all of them to return in January, Enterprise Insider reported on Monday (Dec 16).
A spokesperson for the corporate instructed Bloomberg that, generally, the return-to-office delays happened because of reconfigurations of buildings that had been used to accommodate part-time distant employees and never due to a scarcity of accessible workplace house.
Studies of the delays got here as Amazon warehouse employees at a number of of its US amenities threatened to go on strike, aiming to strain the corporate into contract negotiations with their union. Staff at seven amenities subsequently walked off the job early on Thursday.
