“In July, the company added that remote employees must relocate near office “hubs” where most of their team members work. Those unwilling to relocate or find a compatible team were offered a “voluntary resignation” package. By September, Amazon began sharing individual attendance records with employees, a change from its previous practice of tracking anonymized data.”
Amazon’s new guidelines give managers a final step after two attendance talks: termination. The ramp took eight months. Three days a week in February, relocate or resign in July, individual badge records in September, and now firing. Managers are told to “assume positive intent” for one to two weeks before they pull the trigger. Amazon offered a resignation package in July. The new final step offers a pink slip instead.