Amazon’s Return to Office Error Sparks Confusion Among
Amazon is clamping down on staff attendance after requiring remote workers to return at least three days a week in February, but its method is confusing many employees.According to emails received by the insider, a number of employees were wrongly tagged as violating the RTO policy, with some assuming the error was due to a technological glitch.
Amazon has quickly admitted its error, but with corporate workers notoriously fighting the crackdown and the revelation surfacing just a week after a company official claimed to have “no data” to back up the policy change, this development isn’t looking good for the ecommerce giant.
Amazon Fumbles Return to Office Clampdown
Amazon is ramping up its return to office requirement, but not with much success. This week, the online retail behemoth issued a series of letters to workers it suspected of violating its three-day-a-week workplace rules. The email stated they were failing to satisfy the company’s “expectation of joining (their) colleagues in the office at least three days a week” despite the fact that their allocated space was ready.
Amazon stated the notice was given to employees who they felt had not physically logged in at least three days a week for at least five of the previous eight weeks, despite the fact that their facility had been ready for at least eight weeks.
Amazon’s Return to Office Drama Continues
However, complaints about Amazon’s RTO policy are nothing new. Following a pledge to never force staff back into the office, the corporation compelled workers return to the workplace for three days a week beginning in May, much to the chagrin of employees. This ruling was promptly contested. Dissatisfied employees immediately circulated a petition demanding that Amazon’s return-to-office policy be repealed with immediate effect, citing worries about productivity and work-life balance. Then, less than a month after the policy was implemented, 2,000 Amazon employees worldwide staged a walkout to protest the company’s decision to abandon flexible work.
