Greater than 500 Amazon.com workers despatched a letter on Wednesday (Oct 30) to the CEO of its AWS unit urging reversal of a full return-to-office policy and rejecting his assertion that the rule had broad help and opponents ought to depart Amazon Internet Companies.
“We have been appalled to listen to the non-data-driven rationalization you gave for Amazon imposing a five-day in-office mandate,” the letter begins.
AWS CEO Matt Garman, at an Oct 17 all-hands assembly of the cloud computing unit, mentioned 9 out of 10 staff he had spoken with supported the return-to-office coverage, set to take impact early subsequent 12 months.
These feedback are “inconsistent with the experiences of many workers” and are “misrepresenting the realities of working at Amazon,” in response to the letter, which Reuters reviewed after it was despatched to Garman.
An Amazon spokesperson mentioned the corporate presents commuter advantages, elder care and subsidised parking charges, amongst different issues, to assist with in-office work.
Garman had mentioned he was “fairly enthusiastic about this transformation” and that, below the present three-day-per-week coverage, collaboration was too troublesome as a result of folks could also be in places of work on completely different days.
The corporate-wide coverage, introduced in September by Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, has been controversial inside Amazon, with many calling it wasteful as a result of it provides commuting time and expense when distant work has been efficient. Some say they plan to depart the corporate.
Amazon has enforced the coverage by asking many staff to go to regional places of work, transfer to Seattle or “voluntarily resign”.
