Editor's note: An Amazon spokesperson, Brad Glasser, sent the following statement to Insider: "Insider wouldn't provide the information necessary for us to verify this individual's account, but if it's true, it doesn't reflect the experience of most employees. I don't trust anyone there enough at this point. I'm at the point now where if Amazon said, we'll take everything back, and you can have your job, I wouldn't accept it. I don't see myself ever coming back here. As someone who is straight-up unwilling to move, that means I could just lose my job for reasons entirely unrelated to my performance at any moment at any company, and that's scary. If I were to take a new remote job somewhere, all it might take is one senior manager or C-level person to get replaced, and all of a sudden everyone has to be back in the office. I have a hard time trusting they won't roll it back someday because that's what's happening now. Will it be remote tomorrow?" No one is giving a certain answer. It leads to frustrating and worrisome discussions with hiring managers where I have to ask, "Okay, it's remote today. Companies are laying off tens of thousands of people and forcing the rest to relocate, which is driving more people out of work. The jobs I'm looking at are significant pay cuts. It's a crappy time to be looking for a new job as a developer. If I can do my job, get positive performance evaluations, and " delight customers" without sitting in an office in Seattle, why should I be expected to move? Even before the pandemic, I wasn't going in three days a week. I see comments all the time saying, "These Amazon employees are complaining about having to go into the office but what about all the warehouse employees?" If warehouse employees could do their jobs without going into fulfillment centers, I'd 100% support that. We're a data-driven company, but I look at these mandates, and I'm like, what's happening? Finding a new job as a developer is hard right now I've never seen Amazon make any sort of large-scale, top-down mandate like this without some sort of reason behind it. All the arguments about supporting downtown Seattle businesses - I mean great for them, but what about the businesses here? Why don't they deserve my money just as much or more? So that already was just a huge slap in the face. It wasn't even a year ago when Andy Jassy was saying there were no plans for an RTO. But then Amazon made an announcement about returning to the office, and now I'm being told I need to move to Seattle or switch teams, or I'm out of a job. That was sort of the final thing that pushed me to look outside of Amazon and take a new job.Īfter about a year of working elsewhere, I returned to Amazon last year for a role advertised as remote, and up until the last six months, I was happily working here in my city. Then, the company started saying it was looking to bring people back into the office, but I was happy to be fully remote. The first time I worked at Amazon I was on the same team the entire time, so I was already looking for a change. I worked at Amazon for several years before leaving and coming back. It has been edited for length and clarity. Insider has verified their employment but isn't naming them in order to protect their career. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with an Amazon software-development engineer. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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