Thousands of Amazon employees have signed a petition against the company’s new return-to-office mandate for its workforce of 1.6 million employees, which goes into effect May 1.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy in a memo to employees Friday announced that employees, including its approximately 300,000 corporate workers, will need to work from Amazon offices at least three days per week starting in May.
“We, the undersigned, call for Amazon to protect its role and status as a global retail and tech leader by immediately cancelling the RTO [return-to-office] policy and issuing a new policy that allows employees to work remotely or more flexibly, if they choose to do so, as their team and job role permits,” said the petition signed by 5,000 employees according to CNBC.
“We ask Amazon leadership to uphold Amazon’s mission to be Earth’s Best Employer by creating working policies that increase equity and inclusion for all employees.”