Posted on 05/23/2023 7:16:18 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Some Amazon employees in Seattle are making plans to stage a walkout later this month, according to a recent report from The Washington Post.
On Monday, some Amazon staffers began distributing Slack and email messages calling for other workers to join the protest at the company's headquarters on May 31, the Post reported.
The one-day walkout aims to address employee concerns over the company's return-to-office directive, as well as recent layoffs and the company's impact on climate change, the publication said. The event coordinators told the Post they need at least 1,000 Amazon employees based in the Seattle area to participate in the protest.
The action is the result of two organizing groups at the company, a group that formed on Slack as a result of Amazon's return-to-office policy and the Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, the Post said. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns the Post.
Amazon spokesperson Rob Munoz told Insider: "We respect our employees' rights to express their opinions."
The move to stage a walkout comes after Amazon announced in March that is was eliminating about 9,000 more jobs after it cut 18,000 roles in January.
And the layoffs haven't been the only unpopular decision the company has made in recent months. In April, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy doubled down on the company's return-to-office plans in his annual letter to shareholders even after the company had faced backlash for its mandate that employees must be back in the office for at least three days a week starting in May.
Munoz, Amazon's spokesperson, told Insider that the company has had a "great few weeks with more employees in the office" and added that Amazon has explained its thinking around the return-to-office over the past few months in "different forums" and plans to "continue to do so."
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If we're talking about office workers, yeah, two days of mostly useless back to back in-person meetings and 3 days to actually do the work you just wasted two days talking about that could have been resolved with an email or two.
I retired a couple of years ago at 50, but still do gig work for sh*ts and giggles during the Winter months for a former client (big corporation). The nonsense that goes on - especially since they went SCRUM - ah well. It's money for more toys for me to play with all Summer and Fall.
>>Looks like the next 1,000 lay offs have self identified. Stupid should hurt.
self-identified, and also don’t need to get an expensive severance package - gross insubordination is just cause for immediate firing.
How do you “walk off the job” when you are at home?
That was great!
New hires and young workers often long to be in an office at least a little bit. When new to working or to a new job, it’s difficult to learn the job, office culture, etc siloed at home.
Amazon’s return-to-office policy puts a crimp on the early stoned and drunk deal stoners and sots protest.
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