SINGAPORE: Tech big Amazon is delaying its five-day return-to-office policy, slated to start out in January, for 1000’s of employees resulting from an absence of workplace house.
The corporate just lately knowledgeable some employees in at the very least seven United States cities – together with Austin, Dallas and Phoenix – that their return dates can be pushed again by as much as 4 months, reported Bloomberg, citing folks conversant in the state of affairs.
In response to Bloomberg, Amazon employs over 350,000 company staff globally, principally within the US. It’s unclear what number of employees will likely be affected by the delay.
Workers in Dallas had been informed there can be inadequate workplace house for all of them to return in 5 days every week till March or April, whereas some employees on the firm’s Midtown Manhattan workplace wouldn’t have house for full-time work till Might, sources informed Bloomberg.
Amazon has additionally knowledgeable it employees in Atlanta, Nashville and Houston that it didn’t have sufficient house for all of them to return in January, Enterprise Insider reported on Monday (Dec 16).
A spokesperson for the corporate informed Bloomberg that, usually, the return-to-office delays happened on account of reconfigurations of buildings that had been used to accommodate part-time distant employees and never due to an absence of obtainable workplace house.
Experiences of the delays got here as Amazon warehouse employees at a number of of its US services threatened to go on strike, aiming to strain the corporate into contract negotiations with their union. Employees at seven services subsequently walked off the job early on Thursday.