Amazon wants to make RTO exceptions extremely rare, and workers are considering drastic hacks to comply

• Amazon is telling employees to relocate to their team’s nearest “hub” or find a new job.
• The company wants RTO policy exceptions to be extremely rare.
• Employees are considering drastic measures to comply with the order.

Amazon is leaning in hard on its plan to get employees back to the office by making exceptions to the policy extremely rare. That’s forcing some staff to consider drastic measures to comply with the order.

The company recently started enforcing a “return-to-hub” approach by asking employees to work from the central locations assigned to each individual team instead of any office nearest to their current city. Workers who refuse to relocate near their teams’ “hub” offices will either have to find a new job internally or leave through a “voluntary resignation.”