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Jassy made the comments during a meeting earlier this month during which he expressed frustration over the fact that some employees were not taking the return-to-office mandate seriously, according to the news site Insider, which obtained a recording of the CEO’s comments.
During the meeting, which is known in internal Amazon lingo as a “fishbowl” meeting, Jassy declined to share data that motivated his decision to require employees to return to the office.
The CEO told his charges it was a “judgment” call.
Employees who were unhappy with the decision were invited to seek employment elsewhere, Jassy reportedly said.
“It’s past the time to disagree and commit,” he said.
“And if you can’t disagree and commit, I also understand that, but it’s probably not going to work out for you at Amazon because we are going back to the office at least three days a week, and it’s not right for all of our teammates to be in three days a week and for people to refuse to do so,” the 55-year-old Jassy said.
Jassy told his employees that he spoke to scores of other CEOs and that “virtually all of them” preferred having their employees back in the office.
Amazon employees who refused to relocate near the main offices of their teams were told they either had to find a new job internally or leave the company through a “voluntary resignation.”
In March, around 30,000 workers signed a petition begging Jassy to cancel his directive that most employees work on-site at least three days per week.
The return-to-office plan took effect on May 1.
Earlier this year, Amazon, which employs more than 1.5 million people worldwide, announced it was laying off 27,000 workers as part of a broad cost-cutting push.
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