Amazon employees worldwide are facing a return to the office five days a week, sparking discontent among some who prefer the flexibility of remote work. Employees cite a lack of data supporting the mandate and express concerns about its impact on productivity and well-being.
It's a new year with a new full-time return-to- office mandate for Amazon 's global workforce, including those who work in Canada, and not everyone is pleased with the change. Amazon workers in the Vancouver office in March 2024. Staff were allowed to work a hybrid schedule, but as of Jan. 2, that in-office requirement for the company's global workforce changed to five days per week.
'The people on my team are very upset about this,' said CJ Felli, a system development engineer at Amazon Web Services based in Seattle. Amazon's corporate employees worked mostly remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since 2023, they were allowed to work a hybrid schedule — two days remotely and three days in the office.Downtown businesses seeing a bump in sales as federal office workers returnin September that the company is 'going to return to being in the office the way we were before the onset of COVID.''What we've been told is that it leads to increased collaboration between teams and innovation,' said Felli in an interview with CBC News. 'But whenever we ask for data, which is famously Amazon's bread and butter, they never are willing to provide it.' Felli has been speaking out against this latest return-to-office mandate, along with 523 other Amazon employees who penned a letter to the CEO of Amazon Web Services, Matt Garman, saying they are 'appalled' by the 'non-data-driven explanation' for a five-day in-office mandate and expressed the benefits of remote work in the letter. Felli believes employees are happier and productive working from home and would like to maintain that flexibility. 'I do most of my focused work at home, and I find that breaking up of the monotony personally really helps me out,' he said
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