High-Ranking Amazon Exec Defends Return-to-Office Mandate in Leaked Meeting Transcript: ‘There Are Other Companies’
Amazon’s return-to-office mandate has been controversial among staff, leading a senior executive to defend it at a leaked internal meeting.
Amazon is asking all workers to come back to the office five days per week starting January 2. Last month, hundreds of employees anonymously asked senior leadership to overturn the mandate.
In an Amazon Web Services (AWS) all-hands meeting, the transcript of which was first reported by Reuters on Thursday, AWS CEO Matt Garman not only backed the return-to-office policy but also said that anyone dissatisfied with it could find work elsewhere.