It’s been a month now that Amazon employees they asked their boss not to force them to return to the office for 3 days a week. In a letter, company employees unhappy with this decision even stated that their confidence in their coordinators has been “shattered” since this development has not taken into account the opinions of the company’s staff in this regard.
This response came just days after Jassy told workers in a memo that workers would be expected to return to the office for at least three days a week starting May 1.
Now, after having announced last week the additional dismissal of 9,000 people (which joins the 18,000 dismissed in the last months of 2022) the management of this e-commerce giant says there is no going back and that you have to return to the offices.
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Employees who must rethink their entire lives
Beth Galetti, who is the company’s Human Resources (HR) manager, has rejected formally this internal petition presented by some 30,000 employees. This means that employees must return to the office in a little over a month: by May 1.
Many of the people who signed the letter explained that, with teleworking, they had moved to the city with their family. And that going back to the offices would make them have to rethink their entire lives.
According to the letter sent by the employees, many people They trusted the words of the CEO, who was very convinced in teleworking, even after the end of the pandemic restrictions and reorganized their lives based on this. For example, moving to the city, far from the company’s offices.
According to the information leaked by Business Insider from the response of the HR manager, the multinational has three years evaluating “the strengths and weaknesses of the different work models” and “considering what is most compatible with our culture”.
“Given the large size of our workforce and the wide range of businesses and clients, we recognize that this transition may take time, but we are confident that it will result in long-term benefits“, explains Galetti’s message.
Teleworking loses momentum
A few days ago, a judge rejected a lawsuit that a worker, including almost 7,000 workers in his category, filed against Amazon in California. The lawsuit claimed that the company should have reimbursed the costs what it meant for employees to work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Among other reasons for the judge to agree with Amazon against its workers, is that the main plaintiff (named David Williams) could not prove whether Amazon had a company-wide policy of reimbursing employees Internet, telephone and other expenses.
Like Jassy, Mark Zuckerberg has been lethal against teleworking in Meta a few days ago: according to the creator of Facebook, Meta’s internal data analysis suggests that the engineers who initially joined the company in person they performed better than those who did it from a distance from the beginning.
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