![]() Initially, it looked like it was working. General Motors, Starbucks, Apple and Twitter are among other big companies that have started calling employees back to the office. There was swift backlash from employees and they, too, circulated a petition demanding the company retract the mandate. In January, Disney issued its own RTO mandate only they went one up and made it FOUR days a week in the office. For example, what do you tell people who relocated and bought houses in other cities based on a promise that there would be flexible options? The backlash at Amazon and elsewhere seems to be based on employees feeling surprised by RTO mandates and misled that flexible work from home or hybrid options would always be there. Or maybe they just like having some place to go. Maybe they don't have a good, quiet place to work at home. There are employees at pretty much every company who genuinely like and/or want to go to the office. This is all made more awkward by the fact that a lot of non-office employees - like Amazon drivers and warehouse workers - have not had any break in their routines. The news of the RTO mandate came less than a month after the company announced plans to lay off 18,000 workers. The petition used language like the RTO mandate "shattered their trust" in management and some have speculated that this was perhaps a way to get more people to quit. ![]() In less than a week, 14,000 employees had joined the Slack channel and a petition started circulating, demanding the company retract the policy.īased on some of the feedback that has emerged on Slack, Reddit and elsewhere, it seems a lot of employees felt blindsided by the announcement. That same day, employees created a Slack channel to vent their frustrations. (We see you.)Ĭompanies have tried to figure out how to best roll out these policies, but it hasn't always gone smoothly.Īmazon CEO Andy Jassy announced recently that employees would be expected to return to the office three days a week in the spring. ![]() And, of course, some people have been here the whole time. Some people have enjoyed the return to in-person collaboration while others don't want to give up the flexibility and comfort that the WFH-in-your-PJs lifestyle brought. ![]()
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