Amazon workers walk out to protest return to office mandates and the company's climate impact:
Two employee groups at Amazon have joined together to stage a corporate walk out today, uniting to protest the company's return-to-office policy and to raise concerns about Amazon's climate impact.
Standing in front of Amazon's Seattle Headquarters, the group streamed the event live on Twitter — featuring speakers for both groups advocating for their united cause. Some speakers vented their frustrations with the company's policy to have workers return to the office for at least three days a week, telling stories about how the remote work kicked off by the COVID pandemic bought them precious hours at home with their family and saved them from hours of daily commute time. Another speaker married this idea to the company's climate goals, highlighting how remote work allowed more families to become one-car households. This dovetails into some of the groups' complaints that Amazon is failing to meet its own goals in its climate pledge of reaching zero emissions by 2040.
[...] "We continue to push hard on getting to net carbon zero by 2040, and we have over 400 companies who've joined us in our Climate Pledge. While we all would like to get there tomorrow, for companies like ours who consume a lot of power, and have very substantial transportation, packaging, and physical building assets, it'll take time to accomplish. We remain on track to get to 100% renewable energy by 2025, and will continue investing substantially, inventing and collaborating both internally and externally to reach our goal.
[...] Amazon also estimated that about 300 of the 65,000 corporate and tech employees in the Puget Sound HQ participated in the walkout; it doesn't look like the Amazon Employees for Climate Justice account has yet provided their own estimate for how many people participated.
(Score: 2) by Frosty Piss on Monday June 05, @03:10PM (2 children)
Amazon is well known to be a shitty company to work for, but come on. COVID is over, time to move on.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by looorg on Monday June 05, @04:31PM
That is what they want. If by move on you mean "Back into your Cubicle Peon!". But beyond the COVID I guess people just learned that I can work without sitting in my cubicle for 40h per week. Even going back to the cubicle for three days per week, or whatever their current "demand" is, is probably to much. As long as they can find another or a similar job they are never going back to the office like before. They moved on and they don't want to go back again.
(Score: 2) by Opportunist on Monday June 05, @10:54PM
So far nobody provided a good enough reason for me to drag my cadaver back into an office.
You're free to try.
(Score: 2) by deimios on Monday June 05, @04:25PM
It was never about the climate or sustainability or justice or whatever else fad is currently running.
If it increases profits or investments they will shout it from the rooftops.
Right now this makes more money than the alternatives, once that is no longer the case the messaging will change drastically.
"Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia"