R.T.O. is Another Name (or Acronym) for Voluntary Layoffs
A return-to-office (RTO) policy:
AMAZON is laying off many workers, including many thousands of managers. On top of that, Amazon is trying to get many workers to leave on their own, as the following new article serves to show:
More than 500 Amazon employees sent a letter on Wednesday to AWS CEO Matt Garman, urging the executive to reverse the company’s full return-to-office policy, Reuters reports. In September, Amazon asked employees to come back to the office five days a week starting in 2025.The AWS CEO previously told employees that nine out of 10 workers he spoke with supported the policy, according to reports. This letter rejects the contention that the RTO policy was widely supported, saying that statistic is inconsistent with the experiences of many employees. Employees in the letter said they were “appalled” to hear Garman’s non-data driven explanation.
The chiefs/owners of Amazon just want them to resign; I've heard that it's a really bad workplace at AWS (very bad work atmosphere) and some employees "urging the executive to reverse the company's full return-to-office" (at risk of them leaving) sort of misses the point that this move's intention is to cause them to leave. Management at Amazon knows what it's doing with RTO; the real goal is to cause people to resign to reduce costs (no severance) and several other companies do the same thing. █