Over 2,300 employees signed a petition asking CEO Bob Iger to reconsider a mandate to return to offices four days a week, which ranks among the strictest for big companies in the post-pandemic era, arguing that it may “cause long-term harm to the company.”
The signees include workers across Disney’s stable of businesses, including ABC, 20th Century Studios, Marvel Studios, Hulu, Pixar, FX and others.The new mandate, employees argued in the petition, will lead to “forced resignations among some of our most hard-to-replace talent and vulnerable communities” while “dramatically reducing productivity, output, and efficiency.
There has been no response from the company about the petition since it was submitted to upper management last week. Disney did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Washington Post.Disney was among a handful of corporate giants such as General Motors and Starbucks that asked employees to spend more time in the office in the new year, and there have been some signs that such requests are working: Earlier this month, U.S.
by Kastle Systems across 10 of the country’s top metro areas. But occupancy has fallen in recent weeks, and many experts think this could be the new normal.The tug-of-war over how work is done has dominated dialogue between employers and employees in the post-pandemic landscape. Some employees have resisted hard mandates to return:
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