Amazon has tracked the attendance of US-based workers and targeted those who appeared to fail to comply with its hybrid working policy, sparking privacy concerns.
This week, The Seattle-based online retailer singled out some staff members to tell them they were “not currently meeting our expectation of joining your colleagues in the office at least three days a week,” according to an email from the Financial Times.
“We expect you to start coming into the office three or more days a week now,” the email said.
The email to a select number of employees prompted some to raise concerns about privacy while others said they had received the email in error.
The monitoring of attendance in the US appeared to be linked to the use of staff identification badges. In response to staff complaints over the targeted emails, Amazon admitted this week that “there may be instances where we have it wrong.”
Adding it had “taken several steps” to ensure the email “went to the correct recipients,” according to a note seen by the Financial Times.
The upset over attendance monitoring at Amazon follows a difficult few months for the retailer, which laid off almost 30,000 employees this year following a downturn in consumer spending.
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