A recent survey on Blind reveals that a majority of Amazon employees are unhappy with the company's new return-to-office policy and are considering leaving the company. The survey results highlight concerns about morale, impact on families, and the effectiveness of remote work.
On an anonymous job review site Blind, 73% of Amazon employees said they are considering looking for a new job following CEO Andy Jassy's recent memo announcing a full-time return-to-office. Conversations on Blind Further, 80% of the Amazon professionals polled reported that they know of a colleague considering looking for another job because of the announcement.
These Amazon workers also wrote about how the policy announcement has been a blow to morale, and that the change could disproportionately impact parents and caregivers who benefit from remote and hybrid flexibility. But plenty of Amazon employees are hoping leadership will reconsider the policy, which requires corporate workers to report to offices five days per week, up from the current three, beginning in 2025. The survey was shared on company Slack channels, including a'remote advocacy' group with more than 30,000 members, whose support of flexible work could skew the findings. The creators of the survey said they intend to aggregate and share the survey findings with Jassy and other leaders'to provide them with clear insight into the impact of this policy on employees, including the challenges identified and proposed solutions,' Fortune reports. Notably, a group of Amazon employees sent a six-page memo expressing concern to leaders in February 2023 when the company announced a return to office Jassy reported seeing teamwide improvements as a result of the company's hybrid return in his memo announcing the new five-day requirement:'We've observed that it's easier for our teammates to learn, model, practice, and strengthen our culture; collaborating, brainstorming, and inventing are simpler and more effective; teaching and learning from one another are more seamless; and, teams tend to be better connected to one another,' he wrote. 'If anything,' he continued,'the last 15 months we've been back in the office at least three days a week has strengthened our conviction about the benefits.
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