Amazon‘s cloud boss on Thursday gave staff a frank message in regards to the firm’s just lately introduced five-day in-office mandate.

Staffers who do not agree with Amazon’s new coverage can go away, Amazon Internet Providers CEO Matt Garman stated throughout an all-hands assembly on the firm’s second headquarters in Arlington, Virginia.

“If there are individuals who simply do not work effectively in that setting and do not wish to, that is OK, there are different firms round,” Garman stated, based on a transcript seen by CNBC. “At Amazon, we wish to be in an setting the place we’re working collectively, and we really feel that collaborative setting is extremely vital for our innovation and for our tradition.”

Garman’s feedback have been reported earlier by Reuters.

Amazon announced the brand new mandate final month. The corporate’s earlier return-to-work stance required company employees to be in workplace no less than three days every week. Staff have till Jan. 2 to stick to the brand new coverage.

Amazon is forgoing its pandemic-era distant work insurance policies because it appears to be like to maintain up with rivals Microsoft, OpenAI and Google within the race to develop generative synthetic intelligence. It is one of many major duties in entrance of Garman, who took over AWS in June after his predecessor Adam Selipsky stepped down from the function.

The transfer has spurred backlash from some Amazon staff who say they’re simply as productive working from residence or in a hybrid work setting as they’re in an workplace. Others say the mandate places additional pressure on households and caregivers.

Roughly 37,000 staff have joined an inner Slack channel created last year to advocate for distant work and share grievances in regards to the return-to-work mandate, based on an individual accustomed to the matter.

On the all-hands assembly, Garman stated he is been talking with staff and “9 out of 10 persons are really fairly excited by this transformation.” He acknowledged there will probably be circumstances the place staff have some flexibility.

“What we actually imply by that is we wish to have an workplace setting,” stated Garman, noting an instance situation the place an worker might wish to work at home someday with their supervisor’s approval to deal with their work in a quiet setting.

“These are superb,” he stated.

An Amazon spokesperson did not instantly reply to a request for remark.

Garman stated the mandate is vital for preserving Amazon’s tradition and “leadership principles,” that are an inventory of greater than a dozen enterprise philosophies meant to information worker selections and objectives. He pointed to Amazon’s precept of “disagree and commit,” which is the concept staff ought to debate and push again on every others concepts respectfully. That apply will be significantly laborious to hold out over Amazon’s videoconferencing software program, referred to as Chime, Garman stated.

“I do not know if you happen to guys have tried to disagree by way of a Chime name — it’s totally laborious,” Garman stated.

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