Amazon has warned its employees that, in order to be promoted, they must comply with the requirement of working in person at least three days a week, at a time of strong internal resistance to leaving. teleworking."Like any company, we hope that employees who are being considered for a promotion comply with the company's alignments and policies," one of Amazon's spokespersons, Barbara Agrait, explained in an e-mail to EFE, asked about the teleworking issue.
Office employees who do not work in person three or more days a week will be promoted only if additionally approved by a manager.
Since before the pandemic, administrative workers can request to work remotely, and each case is evaluated by the company itself.
Tensions between the corporation and its workers began last February, when Amazon ordered its 350,000 employees to return to in-person work starting in May.
Thousands of workers signed a petition against the mandate and called a strike to ask the company for more flexibility with remote work.
In July, the media Insider accessed some leaked messages in which Amazon proposed making employees sign a "voluntary resignation" if they did not travel to the in-person centers where its teams work.
The technology company opted for personnel cuts after the pandemic boom, and since autumn 2022 it has laid off 27,000 workers in its cloud computing, advertising and retail divisions, among others.
In addition, it has opposed the unionization of its employees for many years, stating that it prefers to maintain a personal and non-mediated relationship with them.