This post got quite a bit of play on LinkedIn, so I thought it would appropriate to share it with clients and potential clients on my blog:
Companies should carefully consider “why” they feel the need to make every employee return to the office five days a week. This is far more about “controlling people” than productivity. Many employees who are remote or hybrid do better work, are more productive, and happier employees. You have the productivity numbers in your employee performance metrics to prove it. You are choosing to ignore them. Truly ask yourself what business need are you accomplishing in forcing everyone back to five days a week?
As for Amazon, they already have enough employee issues that we read and/or hear about on a regular basis in the news! Perhaps not adding to the dissatisfaction would be prudent. 1.4 out of 5 in an employee satisfaction score means you are doing a lot of things wrong, and explicitly showcases that employee engagement isn’t even a blip on your radar.
ORIGINAL BLOG POST FROM LINKEDIN, with Author Recognition
Amazon staff mounts RTO resistance
By Melissa Cantor, Editor at LinkedIn News
Some Amazon employees appear to be holding out hope that its full-time return-to-office mandate could still be reversed. In an anonymous survey created by employees of the tech giant and viewed by Fortune, the RTO policy ranked 1.4 out of 5 on average, with 1 representing the highest level of dissatisfaction. (Fortune notes that workers opposed to RTO may have been more likely to take the survey.) Survey organizers intend to present the results and alternate policy proposals to company leadership — although a memo submitted last year opposing the then-three-day RTO policy yielded no changes.