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Title: Amazon Makes It Harder for Disabled Employees to Work From Home

Link: https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/11/17/183821...

"Amazon is making it harder for disabled employees to get permission to work
from home," reports Bloomberg, a move they say shows Amazon's "determination"
to enforce a five-days-a-week return to the office. The company recently told
employees with disabilities that it was implementing a more rigorous vetting
process, both for new requests to work from home and applications to extend
existing arrangements. Affected workers must submit to a "multilevel leader
review" and could be required to return to the office for monthlong trials to
determine if accommodations meet their needs... Affected employees are
receiving calls from "accommodation consultants" who explain how the new
policy works. They review medical documentation and discuss how effective
working from home has been for employees who've already received an
accommodation as well as any previous attempts to help the person work in the
office. If the consultant agrees that the person should be allowed to work
from home, another Amazon manager must sign off. If they don't, the request
goes to a third manager... Some workers fear the process was designed to make
requests less likely to be approved, two employees said. In internal chat
rooms, according to one of them, employees have accused [Chief Executive
Officer Andy] Jassy of hypocrisy because the bureaucratic process belies his
stated determination to cut through red tape that he says is slowing Amazon
down. "Jassy says the return-to-office requirement will strengthen the
company's culture, which he believes has suffered since the pandemic and
become overly bureaucratic," the article points out. But it adds that down at
the workforce level, the move "is seen by some employees as a way to get
people to quit and shrink the workforce."

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