In the San Francisco Bay Area alone, Amazon is short at least 800 desks, leading nearly 600 employees to sign a petition requesting a new location|Phil Murphy|CC BY-NC 2.0
Amazon mandated over 350,000 corporate employees to begin working from the offices five days a week starting in January. However, several of its US buildings don’t have enough space to accommodate the workforce, per the Wall Street Journal.
Due to the space crunch, the tech giant delayed its return-to-office (RTO) plans for several employees in regions like Houston, Atlanta and New York City.
Amazon is short of at least 800 desks in the San Francisco Bay Area alone. As a result, nearly 600 employees signed a petition requesting a new location.
Apart from limited workstations and conference rooms, employees are also having a tough time finding a place to park their cars at an Austin, Texas, office that employs 2,000 workers but has just 900 spots.
Some employees complying with the RTO don’t even have their teammates in the same location.
Amazon argues that in-person work boosts collaboration, and CEO Andy Jassy has made it clear that those unwilling to comply can leave. The company insists the majority of its staff have embraced the RTO change.
However, workers have taken to social media to express their frustrations that the transition hasn’t been smooth.