The phone rooms are always taken, usually have broken lights or trash on the floor/desk.
There’s absolutely no perks. The office cafe is expensive and awful food quality. My team wanted to have a holiday dinner and was told the company won’t pay for it, we have to pay out of pocket. There’s no budget for things like after-work events. Want to get drinks after work with your team? No budget for it.
We’re forced to sit in agile desks that nobody likes. You aren’t allowed to customize your desk is any way. You aren’t allowed to leave anything overnight on your desk, even if you’re going to use the same desk the next day.
The _only_ perk we have is that you are allowed to get one free coffee per day from the onsite barista, and even that they have tried to get rid of multiple times.
I used to work at a company that had a hybrid workforce and it had no issue getting people to come into the office by incentivizing people with basic stuff like a nice office or company-sponsored events.
Amazon is all stick, no carrot and it’s honestly embarrassing that a company this big could be so inept at something other companies figured out decades ago. Either that, or they aren’t even trying. I don’t know which is worse.