Amazon is blocking promotions of employees who don't comply with RTO policy

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Amazon told its managers last month that employees slated for promotions must comply with the company's return-to-office policy, which requires them to be in the office at least three times a week.

"If your role is expected to work from the office 3+ days a week and you are not in compliance, your manager will be made aware and VP approval will be required."

In an email to Insider, Amazon's spokesperson said compliance with the company's return-to-office policy was one of the many factors it considers before an employee is promoted.

Last month, Amazon told managers that they now have discretion to fire employees who refuse to comply with the return-to-office policy, as Insider previously reported.

Those employees have argued that some of them were hired as fully remote workers during the pandemic and that they see the mandate as a shift from the previous guidelines that allowed individual managers to determine how their teams worked.

By September, Amazon was sharing individual attendance records on employees, a shift from the previous policy of tracking only anonymized data.

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Another rule by people who think the only way "real" work gets done is by sitting in a cubicle and talking to people.

This is odd. Like if your job says you need to be in the office 3 days a week I disagree but you'd need to follow that, but you can't change someones terms of work midway through. If you hire remote workers then they're remote workers.