2024-10-30
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Here's an article handpicked from the latest edition of The Economist, read aloud.
My morale for this job is gone.
Gonna totally check out," an Amazon worker recently wrote on Blind,
an online forum where employees whinge about their employers.
The cause of his discontent was a letter sent last month by Andy Jassy,
the tech giant's boss, that ordered staff back to the office five days a week.
The mandate has caused grumbling among Amazon's office drones,
who had previously been required to show up in person only three days a week.
At a meeting on October 17th, Matt Garman, head of Amazon's cloud computing division,
told a group of staff that if they did not want to adhere to the policy, they could quit.
Amazon is not the only big company that has clamped down on remote work.
Goldman Sachs, a bank, PwC, a professional services firm, and Stellantis, a carmaker,
are among those that have raised the number of days they require their employees to come into the office.
more are set to follow.
A recent global survey by KPMG, another professional services firm,
found that four-fifths of bosses expect to return to the office five days a week within three years.
Such mandates may already be starting to show up in aggregate figures.