Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced When the company announced in September that it would require its employees to return to the office five days a week, management “observed” that employee culture and efficiency were better when employees were in the same location. he said.
More than 500 Amazon employees said in a recent letter to executives that they don’t want to completely change their lives based on executives’ vague observations. They want data.
“We were appalled to hear an undata-based explanation for Amazon’s five-day in-office requirement,” employees said after a meeting about the policy change. A letter was sent to CEO Matt Garman. The first person to report after receiving this letter was Reuters.
For the past 16 months, Amazon has allowed most employees to work from home two days a week. But without providing hard evidence, Jassy said people are better able to “learn, model, practice and strengthen our culture” in person.
Amazon may have internal data to support its claims that it chose not to share with angry employees, but academic research shows that hybrid work environments are ideal for both employees and corporate profits. It turns out that in many cases it is the environment.
a study A paper published this year by economists at Stanford University and several universities in China surveyed 1,600 employees at technology companies and found that those who were allowed to work from home two days a week had to report to work. They were found to have higher job satisfaction and significantly lower turnover rates than employees. Office 5 days a week. The study also found no evidence that working from home affects employees’ performance reviews or promotion potential.
earlier analysis A University of Melbourne professor researched the performance of companies’ share prices and found that allowing employees to work from home could benefit companies’ stock prices. The study concluded that work-from-home arrangements are “positively related to shareholder returns,” and that “rather than posing moral hazard concerns, the introduction of such arrangements has provided U.S. companies with significant efficiency gains. It is highly likely that this will result in
A recent letter from an Amazon employee to Garman was sent after a meeting between executives. reportedly told employees This means that if you don’t like the new policy, you can quit. He claimed that 90% of the employees he spoke to were satisfied with the return-to-office policy, although he was met with considerable skepticism from employees who signed the letter, Reuters reported.
On the other hand, anonymous investigation A survey of Amazon employees conducted by a professional networking company found that 91% of employees were dissatisfied with the new policy.
