More than 500 Amazon employees sent an open letter to web services CEO Garman against the work-from-office policy

Amazon employees continue to fight against the tech giant’s return to office (RTO) mandate. In protest, more than 500 of the firm’s employees signed a letter to Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman and called on him to reconsider his position on returning employees to work.I rush to the office completely.

Earlier, Garman said that employees will have to work five days in the office instead of three, Moneycontrol reported. This announcement has since caused a lot of excitement among employees of the technology firm.

In an October 17 letter, employees said: “As AWS and Amazon employees who work tirelessly every day to innovate on behalf of our customers, we were shocked to hear the non-data-based explanation you provided. Amazon is implementing a five-day in-office mandate. at the AWS Global Meeting on October 17.”

The letter was seen by Business Insider. The news agency reported that the letter read: “By rigidly imposing a five-day stay-at-the-office culture and telling employees who cannot or will not contribute to the company mission in such a specific way that ‘there are other companies around,’ you are silencing critical viewpoints and thereby damaging our culture and our future.”

In announcing the policy change, Garman said the majority of the company’s workers agreed with the decision and that those who disagree with the return-to-work mandate could look elsewhere for employment opportunities.

Notably, a survey conducted last month found that 73 percent of the company’s employees plan to quit following Amazon’s recent decision. Most employees said they were “extremely unhappy” with the firm’s decision.