Amazon CEO To Workers Who Won't RTO: 'It’s Probably Not Going To Work Out For You At Amazon'

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is turning up the heat on employees who haven't come back to the office for the required three days per week. 

In a meeting earlier this month, Jassy admonished return-to-office holdouts, saying their refusal to comply with the policy for corporate employees isn't fair to those coming in for the required number of days, according to Seeking Alpha.

The three-day policy went into effect in May. Also in May, Amazon welcomed employees to Metropolitan Park, the 2.2M SF first phase of its HQ2 in Arlington, Virginia. 

"It's past the time to disagree and commit," Jassy told employees, referring to the management principle Amazon founder Jeff Bezos often invoked that people can disagree with a decision while it's being discussed, but once it's adopted, everyone should commit to it.

"And if you can't disagree and commit, I also understand that, but it's probably not going to work out for you at Amazon because we are going back to the office at least three days a week," Jassy said. 

Amazon knows who is committing and who isn't. Earlier this month, The Guardian reported that Amazon was tracking workers' locations and had sent emails to those it suspected of working from home too much. 

The company also told employees working remotely or in cities with smaller offices that they might have to relocate so they could come into offices in Amazon's largest corporate employment centers, including Seattle, the HQ2 site, New York, San Francisco and Nashville, Tennessee.

The e-commerce giant is far from the only company seeing return-to-office resistance from employees. RTO mandates apply to at least 2 million workers nationally, but office usage isn't reflecting that and has remained more or less flat.