Amazon Web Services chief. Matt Garman. doubled down on Amazon’s new five-day in-office work week. He told any disgruntled employees that they can “find work elsewhere.”
One of the company’s top executives, told workers in a meeting that if they don’t like the new policy, they can quit.
“If there are people who just don’t work well in that environment and don’t want to, that’s okay, there are other companies around,” Garman said.
“At Amazon, we want to be in an environment where we are working together, and we feel that collaborative environment is incredibly important for our innovation and for our culture,” he added.
The tech giant announced the changes to office policy last month. Workers will have to completely ditch their remote work arrangements starting Jan 2.
CEO Andy Jassy said he believes the move will better set Amazon up to collaborate. “It will help us be connected enough to each other and our culture to deliver the absolute best for customers,” he stated.
For their part, workers at the tech giant are disheartened with the decision. Many were vocal about it on social media and internal messaging boards. They called the move a step backward and expressed concerns about the impact it would have on their work-life balance.
Previous reports showed that Amazon had been keeping tabs on how much its employees were coming into the office.
However, Garman said at the meeting that “nine out of 10 people are actually quite excited by this change.”
He added that in the era of remote work, there were days when his team “didn’t really accomplish anything.”
