Amazon employees plan May 31 walkout over in-person work, layoffs

Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) employees are planning a work stoppage next week as internal backlash over layoffs and stricter in-person work policies continue.

On Monday, some employees at Amazon sent out emails urging others to walk out of the company's Seattle headquarters and other offices on May 31, in direct response to the 27,000 layoffs companywide over the past five months and a requirement to work three days a week in an assigned office, which went into effect for many employees this month.

The protest was organized by members of the company's remote advocacy group and the more established Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, which staged a walkout in 2019 to address the company's effect on climate change.

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&quot Return to office), layoffs, and a broken Climate Pledge all show leadership is exhibiting Day 2 behavior and taking us in the wrong direction," organizers wrote on the webpage designated for employee pledges. "Employees need a say in decisions that affect our lives such as the RTO mandate, and how our work is being used to accelerate the climate crisis. Our goal is to change Amazon's cost/benefit analysis on making harmful, unilateral decisions that are having an outsized impact on people of color, women, LGBTQ people, people with disabilities, and other vulnerable people."

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