One month after Amazon ordered its corporate employees to return to the office, some of them have walked back out. More than 1,000 workers joined a rally taking place outside the company’s Seattle headquarters today, organizers say, while demonstrations in multiple other cities are expected to bring overall participation to over 2,000. The employees are protesting Amazon’s return-to-office mandate and a lack of meaningful progress on its Climate Pledge.
“Morale is the lowest I’ve seen since I’ve been working here,” says a Seattle-based employee who started in 2020 and survived two rounds of layoffs this year that put 27,000 Amazonians out of work.
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