the end of the home office causes layoffs; understand

Amazon is doing everything it can to get employees back to their offices. For this reason, the company requires some workers to move to a work center where they will be with their team. Contractors who cannot travel to their new workplace have no choice but to resign.

Returning to the office disrupts the staff

• These findings come from a report issued by CNBCwho spoke to several employees of the retail giant about the requirements for the new job transfer;
• According to a Texas employee who was put into a remote job in March, his managers told him and his team that they wouldn’t have to go back to the office;
• However, this promise was not kept and the team was forced to choose between some cities, such as Seattle, New York, Austin or Arlington to work face-to-face;
• In line with its back-to-the-office (RTO) mandate, the company intends to move remote workers to duty stations by the first half of 2024;
• One employee interviewed, who does not live near any of the company’s duty stations, chose to leave Amazon because he had found another job;
• The worker said that his resignation came because moving to another city to comply with the face-to-face work model would generate uncertainty about his future work, increase costs, and not guarantee a salary increase.

The return to a face-to-face model has been problematic for the roughly 350,000 Amazon employees, who have set up “personal offices” from home during the pandemic.

And in May, Amazon required its employees to work in person at least three days a week.

In addition to returning to offices, the big tech companies have cut costs and some perks, such as free drinks in cafeterias, reduced refunds for parking lots, and suspended free Uber rides to work, according to employees.

Rob Munoz, an Amazon spokesperson, told CNBC that the transfer order affects a small percentage of the workforce and that each team decides where their work centers. Furthermore, the representative claimed that the company offers relocation benefits to employees who have been asked to relocate.

Punish employees for not returning to their offices

Recently, some Amazon employees were notified of failing to meet “expectations of joining their colleagues in the office at least three days a week,” emails seen by the Financial Times revealed.

Amazon said the notice is for employees who have been in the office for less than three work days per week in two months.

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