A top Amazon executive recently said he had 'no data' to support the company's return-to-office mandate, prompting criticism from frustrated employees
about increased foot traffic and credit card transactions in Seattle, one employee said it made no sense that it couldn't collect any RTO-related data.Others poked fun at Amazon's insistence to stick to the"disagree and commit" principle, when many employees are not buying into it.
"Saying you 'disagree and commit' when there is very little impact to you personally and great impact to someone else is not anything to be proud of, especially if you've done nothing to mitigate that impact," one of the people said. Another person said invoking the"disagree and commit" principle in this case is like trying to"compel compliance while silencing dissent." In an email to Insider, Amazon's spokesperson, Rob Munoz, said there's"more energy, collaboration, and connections happening" when employees are back in the office.
"We're happy with how the first few months of having more people back in the office have been. There's more energy, collaboration, and connections happening, and we've heard this from lots of employees and the businesses that surround our offices."Contact the reporter Eugene Kim via the encrypted-messaging apps Signal or Telegram (
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