By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-25 11:27:53 | Updated at 2024-09-30 21:31:47
5 days ago
‘Strongly dissatisfied’: Amazon employees plead for reversal of 5-day RTO mandate in anonymous survey
MSN.com ^ | September 25, 2024 | Jason Del Rey (Fortune)
Posted on 09/25/2024 3:47:07 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Some Amazon workers are refusing to "disagree and commit," as one of the company's famed leadership principles requires of those who aren't on board with a decision.
Instead, hundreds of the online retailing giant's employees are complaining that CEO Andy Jassy's five-days-per-week return-to-office mandate, announced last week, will negatively impact their lives—and productivity at work—and how they hope the company will reverse course.
The feedback is from an anonymous survey created by Amazon employees that was viewed by Fortune on Tuesday. Corporate employees have shared it widely via the messaging app Slack, including in one "remote advocacy" Slack channel with more than 30,000 members that a former employee created when Amazon first announced a three-day return-to-office mandate last year.
As a result, employees who are in favor of remote or hybrid work may have been more likely to respond to the survey and therefore skew the findings.
As of the afternoon of September 24, the average satisfaction rating related to the RTO mandate among survey respondents was 1.4 out of scale up to 5 (with 1 meaning "strongly dissatisfied" and 5 representing "strongly satisfied"). The survey's creators said in an introduction to their questionnaire that they plan to aggregate and share the results by email with Jassy and other company executives "to provide them with clear insight into the impact of this policy on employees, including the challenges identified and proposed solutions."
"We are seeking honest, constructive feedback on the recent decision to require a 5-day return to the office schedule," the survey introduction reads.
An Amazon spokesperson declined to comment.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amazon; andyjassy; employees; mandate; rto; survey; wfh
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
"Amazon employees plead for reversal of 5-day RTO mandate in anonymous survey"
In a corporation, there is no such thing as a truly anonymous survey, imho.
2 posted on 09/25/2024 3:55:42 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
1.4 out of 5 should be fired!!
3 posted on 09/25/2024 3:56:25 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
To: Tench_Coxe
“In a corporation, there is no such thing as a truly anonymous survey, imho.”
When I was in HR, we did annual Employee Surveys — “anonymous”.
Once someone asked me if they’re really anonymous. I asked, “Didja SEE the bar code?”
4 posted on 09/25/2024 3:58:47 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (I'm voting for the convicted felon with the pierced ear. )
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The good news is that the separate has given their corporatist toadies assurances that they will not be rolling out another scamdemic. Even under Trump 47.
5 posted on 09/25/2024 3:58:54 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (Trump/Vance 2024 or GFY)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
6 posted on 09/25/2024 4:05:19 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Shutting down this country for COVID has brought us to the brink of insanity. Either you want to work for the company and follow their rules or quit. I never had a job where I got to demand anything from my employer. You cannot make me believe that all of the “home” workers are giving the company an 8 hour work day. In between laundry, napping and whatever, productivity has to be rock bottom. Maybe I am too old to understand. Or maybe these people should GO BACK TO THE OFFICE!
7 posted on 09/25/2024 4:06:04 AM PDT by txlurker
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Get ride of all of them and start with a new workforce. Once that workforce is trained, get rid of the ones who cannot keep pace, who are late, who complain. There are too many people without jobs for management to put up with Biden’s babies.
8 posted on 09/25/2024 4:07:53 AM PDT by Jumper
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Previous generations moved to wherever the jobs were. They tore apart family and relationships just to go somewhere and make money. In the sixties, my father would go away for one or two weeks at a time and stay in a motel so he could work.
Today, people want their employer to send money to them while they “work from home.” I had several renters who were “working from home.” Yeah, not very much. They howled when they were told to come back in to work, but they all did because they had to. But the real rub was they wanted to be paid while doing darned little “work from home.”
9 posted on 09/25/2024 4:13:08 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
To: Jumper
Biden’s babies.Now they’re Kamala’s Kolic babies.
10 posted on 09/25/2024 4:13:20 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (Trump/Vance 2024 or GFY)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Poor babies having to go into the office to work! I am glad I retired before all of this foolishness!
12 posted on 09/25/2024 4:21:06 AM PDT by quilterdebbie (We will endeavor to persevere!)
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