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Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen Brother Black fly's left hand clue delivery! According to news from February 22, Amazon recently officially announced that its employees are required to work in the office at least three days a week. The move sparked resentment among a large number of Amazon employees, who jointly issued a petition to Andy Jassy, chief executive, urging him and other executives to abandon their request to return to the office.

In a memo on Friday, Tuyuan Pexels announced that Amazon will require employees to work in the office at least three days a week from May 1. Mr. Jassi said he and Amazon's leadership team, S-Team, believe that it is easier for employees to work together in a face-to-face situation, which also helps to strengthen the company's culture.

The move marks a shift in Amazon's policy during the epidemic era, which was last updated in October 2021, when the company left it to managers to decide how long their team members needed to work in the office each week. Since then, some of Amazon's white-collar workers have adopted a combination of telecommuting and mixed work.

Amazon employees are understood to have created an internal Slack channel to support telecommuting and share their concerns about the new back-to-work policy after Mr. Jassi announced his request to return to the office. As of Tuesday, local time, nearly 14000 employees had joined Slack.

At the same time, Amazon employees drafted a petition to Jassi and the S-Team team calling on the leadership to abandon the new policy, saying it "runs counter" to Amazon's position on diversity and inclusiveness, comfortable housing, sustainable development and a focus on being the "best employer on the planet."

"as signatories, we call on Amazon to protect its role and status as a global leader in the retail and technology industry, immediately abolish the back-to-office policy and take new measures," the petition said. allow employees to work remotely or in other more flexible ways as their respective teams and work roles allow. "

An Amazon spokesman did not comment, but referred to Mr. Jassi's blog post about a request to return to the office.

Amazon employees also mentioned Mr. Jassi's previous statement about plans to return to the office. In the statement, he said there was no one-size-fits-all approach to how each team works best, and praised the benefits of telecommuting.

A draft of the petition reads: "many employees believe these statements and plan to live a life where employers will not force them to return to the office." however, the new reinstatement policy shattered their trust in Amazon leaders. "

Employees who moved or were hired to remote positions during the outbreak are worried that the new policy will have a greater impact on them, according to an employee who spoke on condition of anonymity. Amazon's headcount has soared over the past three years, and as it has become more dispersed, Amazon has hired more outside key technology centers such as Seattle, New York and Northern California.

Amazon has not said whether telecommuting workers will be asked to relocate, and Yasi has previously pointed out that there will be "a small number of people" exceptions to the new policy.

According to Amazon's internal data quoted in the petition, a considerable number of employees prefer to work completely remotely and can choose to synchronize in the office once a month, or prefer to work in the office up to one or two days a week. The petition also points out that research shows that telecommuting increases productivity and enables companies such as Amazon to reduce costs and attract and retain top talent.

In the petition, Amazon employees said a return to face-to-face work could affect their work-life balance and could affect parents, ethnic minorities and employees with disabilities. Employees also question Amazon's rationale for forcing face-to-face work in all cases. For example, the petition says that some employees of global teams enter the office just to continue to hold virtual meetings, and there may be no other colleagues in their office at all.

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