summarize this content "In messages sent out via Slack and email, employee organizers urged their colleagues to walk out on May 31 — one week after the company’s annual shareholder meeting — in response to frustration over layoffs and the return-to-office mandate, as well as concerns about Amazon’s climate commitments.
“NAME_1 feels like it’s at an all-time low,” said a Los Angeles-based Amazon employee who plans to participate, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to protect their job. “In meetings and one-on-ones with colleagues, there’s so much uncertainty and lack of clarity from leadership. … It’s an unsettling time to work at Amazon.”
The walkout, which organizers hope will draw at least 1,000 Seattle-based participants, is part of a greater wave of anxiety spilling over into agitation among Silicon Valley workers as hiring freezes follow mass layoffs amid a looming potential recession.
At Meta, NAME_1 has plummeted as top bosses received big bonuses while the company continues to lay off thousands of people. At Google, staffers are bracing themselves for more job eliminations.
During a round of recent earnings calls, tech executives generally painted a rosier financial picture for the companies. But now workers at the notoriously cushy firms are growing more agitated — even as their power to make change wanes with their lack of job security.
Layoffs almost always create a “sense of betrayal” among workers, said NAME_2, a labor historian at the University of California at Santa Barbara, which is why it makes sense that workers are expressing frustration even in the current economic environment."