Around 2,000 Amazon employees to stage walkout in protest against layoffs, WFO mandate
Amazon.com, along with several other tech companies, saw mass layoffs recently. A group of Amazon employees have decided to show protest against mass layoffs, work-from-office mandate and the company’s environmental impact. Nearly 2,000 Amazon employees are slated to stage a walkout.
As per the Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, a climate change advocacy group founded by Amazon workers, around 1,800 employees from all across the world, including 870 at the Seattle office, have pledged a walkout.
More than 100 people gathered in the afternoon by the Spheres, the glass-dome monument at the heart of Amazon's Seattle headquarters, according to a Reuters witness. "Emissions climbing. Time to act!" the group chanted. "Stand together; don't turn back!"
Amazon can’t seem to catch a break lately. On top of flagging retail sales and a tricky economic environment to contend with, it now has unhappy corporate workers to add to its list of woes. Nearly 2,000 employees took part in a planned walkout this week, with climate change and a back-to-work mandate Amazon enforced from the start of May at the top of the agenda.
