Ex-Amazonian critical of return-to-office mandate says she was forced out

Standing outside Amazon's Seattle headquarters in May, Pamela Hayter told her colleagues she wasn't nervous. "We're here today because it's the right thing to do," the eight-year Amazon veteran said to a group of employees who had participated in a walkout in hopes of getting the company to reconsider a recently issued return-to-office mandate. Hayter was one of the only then-current Amazon employees to take the microphone at the May event. Weeks before, she had created a Slack channel, titled #remote-advocacy, which became the meeting ground for workers to share concerns about RTO, draft a pe...