There could be tough times on the horizon for defiant Amazon employees who are resisting the online commerce giant’s order that they return to actually showing up in the office after years of remote work.
CEO Andy Jassy, who earlier this year said that workers are expected to be onsite at least three days a week, appears to be losing patience with holdouts, telling employees during a recent “fishbowl” meeting that “it’s probably not going to work out for you” for those who continue to defy his return-to-office mandate.
Jassy told the employees that cutting back on remote work was a “judgment” call and if they disagreed with it, they may not be cut out for continued employment with Amazon, according to the news website Insider which obtained a recording of the CEO’s remarks from the meeting which took place earlier this month.
“It’s past the time to disagree and commit,” Jassy said. “And if you can’t disagree and commit, I also understand that, but it’s probably not going to work out for you at Amazon because we are going back to the office at least three days a week, and it’s not right for all of our teammates to be in three days a week and for people to refuse to do so.”
“Those were judgment decisions by our leadership team,” Jassy told employees. “And that is what’s happened here. As a leadership team, we’ve decided that we will be better for customers and for our business being in the office.”
During the “fishbowl” discussion, Amazon’s term for such meetings, Jassy said that he had spoken with 60 to 80 other CEOs about their own remote working policies and that “virtually all of them” said that they preferred having their employees back in the office.
In a sign of the entitlement of today’s corporate workers, especially in the tech industry, Amazon employees have engaged in protests against company policies that they don’t like, including a recent tantrum outside of Amazon’s headquarters in Seattle, Wash. where the petulant staff members demonstrated over the unfairness of the cutbacks on remote work as well as their opinion that their employer isn’t doing more to fight the alleged climate crisis.
(Video: YouTube/Fox 13 Seattle)
Entitled Amazon workers recently balked at a strongly worded email about the company’s expectations that they adhere to the return-to-office mandate that went into effect in May.
“We are reaching out as you are not currently meeting our expectation of joining your colleagues in the office at least three days a week, even though your assigned building is ready,” read an email sent as a warning to corporate employees, screenshots of which were posted to Blind, an anonymous corporate message board. “We expect you to start coming into the office three or more days a week now.”
“If there is a specific reason prohibiting you from doing so, or you believe you received this email in error, please have a conversation with your manager as soon as possible,” the email stated.
“Is this supposed to scare people?” wrote one Amazon employee on an internal Slack channel, according to Insider.
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