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Amazon ordered a return to the office – but research says they'll backtrack
Half of U.S. firms asked workers to return to the office last year—only a third have kept their strict 5-day in-office mandates in place
Amazon is no stranger to RTO-defiant workers: Around 30,000 employees signed a petition protesting the company’s three-day in-office mandate last year, and more than 1,800 pledged to walk out from their jobs to take a stand. Since then it has attempted to reassert its authority by giving managers the green light to fire employees who fail to show face in the office three days a week and asking remote workers to relocate near an office—or resign. Ultimately, despite Jassy’s call for workers to return to “the way we were before the onset of COVID,” Daan Van Rossum highlights that “in the pre-pandemic office, most people didn’t show up 5 days a week.
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