The survey was created by Amazon employees who then shared it to at least 30,000 members who logged into a Slack channel called “remote advocacy,” according to Fortune.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s directive for workers to return to the office five days a week beginning in January was not well received. Getty Images
The magazine was able to see the results of the survey, which found that respondents had marked down a 1.4 on of a scale of up to 5 — with 1 meaning “strongly dissatisfied” and 5 being “strongly satisfied.”
The authors of the survey said they plan to aggregate and share the results by email with Jassy and other executives so as to “provide them with clear insight into the impact of this policy on employees, including the challenges identified and proposed solutions.”
“When I was at home, I could jump on early or late meetings pretty easily, but I’m physically unable to do that now.”
Single parents will also be adversely impacted by the decision, according to employees who spoke to Fortune.
Amazon employees have been reporting to the office three days out of the week for the past 15 months. Getty Images/iStockphoto
But others agreed with Jassy, saying that the reasons people give for needing to work from home would have been unthinkable before the pandemic.
The return-to-office mandate is a sharp change from its current hybrid policy , which requires employees to work from the office at least three days a week.
“When we look back over the last five years, we continue to believe that the advantages of being together in the office are significant,” Jassy wrote last week.
“I’ve previously explained these benefits, but in summary, we’ve observed that it’s easier for our teammates to learn, model, practice, and strengthen our culture; collaborating, brainstorming, and inventing are simpler and more effective; teaching and learning from one another are more seamless; and, teams tend to be better connected to one another.”
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Darlene Fields
21d ago
you worked it before. covid is over. get back to the office. he needs to fire the ones that don't show up as there are alot of people needing jobs
Itsme
21d ago
Then leave and find a job where you don’t have to work. A man hired you to work, so work. If I were boss your ass would be gone long ago.
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