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'Strongly dissatisfied': Amazon employees plead for reversal of 5-day RTO mandate in anonymous survey

A new Amazon corporate employee survey seeks feedback on the impact a five-day in-office workweek will have on the personal and professional lives.

Instead, hundreds of the online retailing giant’s employees are complaining that CEO Andy Jassy’s five-days-per-week return-to-office mandate, announced last week, will negatively impact their lives—and productivity at work—and how they hope the company will reverse course. The survey’s creators said in an introduction to their questionnaire that they plan to aggregate and share the results by email with Jassy and other company executives “to provide them with clear insight into the impact of this policy on employees, including the challenges identified and proposed solutions.” The bad news for those dissatisfied with the new return-to-the-office rule is that when a group of Amazon employees sent a six-page memo to leadership last year making the case to reverse the original three-day in-office mandate, it was dismissed.

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