Beijing time March 10 evening news, according to reports, Amazon last month announced the “back to the office” policy hit hard. So far, nearly 30,000 employees have signed an internal petition against it.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy (Andy Jassy) announced on Feb. 17 that starting in May, the company would return to its pre-epidemic office model, with most office workers coming to the office at least three times a week.
Amazon employees expressed dissatisfaction with the decision. They formed a group on Slack, a corporate instant messaging software, to promote the advantages of telecommuting and express their concerns about the new policy. At the same time, they drafted a petition calling on Amazon to reconsider the policy.
Today, 29,200 workers, or about 10 percent of Amazon’s corporate workforce, have signed the petition, opposing the return-to-office policy. This suggests that Amazon is being slightly hasty in forcing employees back into the office after three years of telecommuting due to the epidemic.
In the petition, Amazon employees listed some internal data, as well as comments from employees about the policy, to support the continuation of telecommuting.
For example, a survey last year showed that 87 percent of Amazon employees prefer to work in the office “one or two days a week, or less. They believe that telecommuting beats office work in many ways, including “ability to focus,” “productivity,” and “innovation/creativity.
Employees also say that telecommuting facilitates a better work-life balance, saves them commuting time, gives them time to care for their children, and contributes to climate change.
Some employees said they would have to start looking for new jobs because of Amazon’s new policy. Other employees said that the company always asks us to show evidence to support some ideas at work, and now the company should also look at the data from employees (the number of people who signed against it).
