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2023-12-08 Economy

Amazon's strict return-to-office policy is pushing more employees into quitting

[Techspot] A hot potato: Are you one of the many people so against returning to the office that you'd rather quit your job than go back? It's an issue several companies are facing. According to a recent report, one tech giant rapidly losing staff over its RTO policy is Amazon, though it doesn't seem willing to do anything about it.

Business Insider reports that some Amazon employees have noticed an increasing number of colleagues are leaving the company over its strict return-to-office mandate.

Ending a policy of allowing employees to work from home full-time is always a contentious move by companies, but none have faced as much pushback as Amazon. The original announcement resulted in an employee petition in February, which was resoundingly rejected, and it was one of the reasons behind a walkout later in the year.

Adding fuel to the fire is another Amazon policy introduced in July that requires some corporate workers to relocate to other cities near their teams' "hub" offices — central locations assigned to each individual team.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy was clear about what will happen to any worker who refuses to come back into the office for at least three days per week: "It's probably not going to work out for you at Amazon," he said in August.

In an internal Slack channel called Remote Advocacy dedicated to discussions about the RTH (return-to-hub) mandate, one of the 34,000 group members wrote "This is my last week at Amazon and my only reason for leaving is the RTH policy."

Posted by Besoeker 2023-12-08 08:38|| || Front Page|| [26 views ] Top

#1 Shareholders respond accordingly.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-12-08 08:45|| 2023-12-08 08:45|| Front Page Top

#2 If you can't be bothered with coming to work, you likely weren't doing anything useful anyway.

Posted by ed in texas 2023-12-08 11:03|| 2023-12-08 11:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Zoomer explains why "coming to work" is icky...

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-12-08 12:53|| 2023-12-08 12:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Future job: "Do you want fries with that...?"

Posted by magpie 2023-12-08 16:49|| 2023-12-08 16:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Interviewer: "And why did you leave your last job?"

Interviewee: "Because they wanted me to actually come in to work."

Interviewer: "I see..."

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-12-08 16:56|| 2023-12-08 16:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Dumb move on Amazon's part. I've been a full time work from home since the summer of 2008. I'm more productive and happier at home than I ever was in the office. Most of my co-workers, in multiple different states, are also full time WAHs. Amazon is probably going to lose some of their better employees.

Posted by Chantry 2023-12-08 19:47|| 2023-12-08 19:47|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ % of those? Just asking as I have no idea...

Posted by Frank G 2023-12-08 19:50|| 2023-12-08 19:50|| Front Page Top

#8 Amazon wanting to lay off people without a class action suit?

Posted by magpie 2023-12-08 22:29|| 2023-12-08 22:29|| Front Page Top

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