Amazon employees reportedly plan to walk off the job over its return-to-office mandate and layoffs

• Organizers at Amazon's Seattle HQ are planning to stage a one-day walkout, The Washington Post says.
• The protest will address concerns about layoffs and the return-to-office mandate, the Post said.

Some Amazon employees in Seattle are making plans to stage a walkout later this month, according to a recent report from The Washington Post.

On Monday, some Amazon staffers began distributing Slack and email messages calling for other workers to join the protest at the company's headquarters on May 31, the Post reported.

The one-day walkout aims to address employee concerns over the company's return-to-office directive, as well as recent layoffs and the company's impact on climate change, the publication said. The event coordinators told the Post they need at least 1,000 Amazon employees based in the Seattle area to participate in the protest.

The action is the result of two organizing groups at the company, a group that formed on Slack as a result of Amazon's return-to-office policy and the Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, the Post said. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns the Post.

Amazon spokesperson Rob Munoz told Insider: "We respect our employees' rights to express their opinions."

The move to stage a walkout comes after Amazon announced in March that is was eliminating about 9,000 more jobs after it cut 18,000 roles in January.

And the layoffs haven't been the only unpopular decision the company has made in recent months. In April, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy doubled down on the company's return-to-office plans in his annual letter to shareholders even after the company had faced backlash for its mandate that employees must be back in the office for at least three days a week starting in May.

Munoz, Amazon's spokesperson, told Insider that the company has had a "great few weeks with more employees in the office" and added that Amazon has explained its thinking around the return-to-office over the past few months in "different forums" and plans to "continue to do so."

"There's been good energy on campus and in urban cores like Seattle where we have a large presence," Munoz said. "We've heard this from lots of employees and the businesses that surround our offices."

Insider's Eugene Kim previously reported that some employees are already concerned about how the company tracks when staff badge in and out of the facilities.

Amazon is one of several companies attempting to bring remote workers back into the office, but some employees are fighting back, with some workers choosing to quit instead of come back to the office.

Read the Post's full story on its website.

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