Amazon CEO Andy Jassy sent a memo to the workforce last week informing them that starting early next year, everyone is expected to be in the office five days a week, and an employee survey shows that this is not the case arrived well.

Over 2,500 Amazon employees were surveyed about the return-to-office (RTO) requirement by Blind, an online forum of verified technicians, and the results were startling – only nine percent of employees surveyed said they were comfortable with the back-to-office (RTO) requirement. to-office requirements are satisfied. Your desk order. This was reflected in the fact that 73 percent are now thinking about changing jobs as a result of the decree.

“The flat rate RTO policy is crazy, especially for those of us who have been hired far from an office. I have kids and family here so I’m not ready to move,” an Amazon employee commented. “Even if I didn’t do it, the risk of me being fired in six months is too great anyway. So why risk a change?”

According to the poll, conducted days after the official announcement, 32 percent of respondents said they knew someone who had quit to return to office and 80 percent said they knew people who were thinking about doing so do.

Blind’s trick is that when you fully register an account, you have to use your work email address, so when you say on the site that you work for Amazon, it verifies that you actually have a business address with Amazon .com have. Of course, you can change employers after creating an account. So Blind’s survey isn’t scientific, but it’s still a reasonably useful indicator. Fortune recently reported that employees voiced their opinions in an anonymous internal survey.

“I am devastated about this five-day RTO but at the same time I am grateful that I have flexibility in my life. “I don’t have any children to worry about, so I have good savings to rely on and I can easily switch my life to something completely different that suits my needs,” said a Cloud employee -Giants and online souks on blind.

“Decisions like Jassy’s are a big reason why I don’t want children. I don’t need others to impose rules on me that ruin my quality of life.”

Not only are employees leaving as a result of the new policy, but there also appears to be a drop in recruitment. A Microsoft employee chimed in on the message boards with a report that Amazon was having trouble hiring since the policy was announced, and employees from SpaceX and others agreed that RTO meant Amazon was off their list of people , for which they could work, has been deleted.

“An Amazon recruiter blew up my phone and inbox five times in the last 24 hours trying to get me to provide my availability for an on-site interview,” the Redmond employee claimed. “I just asked the recruiter why he was rushing to hire and he said the hiring managers were upset because so many candidates had fallen out of the pipeline in the last 24 hours.”

However, quite a few on the message boards were skeptical and many pointed out that office work had been the norm and there was no point in complaining. Others pointed out that the loss or secret firing of employees unaffiliated with the company could well be a goal of the policy, as may be the case at other companies – particularly Dell, it is alleged.

Amazon isn’t alone in demanding more office work, although other tech companies haven’t been as strict about it. On the other hand, if the rest of the tech industry follows suit and enforces the in-office workplace, people who enjoy working from home won’t have many options. ®