Is this a joke? https://au.news.yahoo.com/amazon-workers-fume-tech-giant-155456660.html

Which part?

Or that it's surprising that people are upset?

Can confirm that neither one is a joke

5 days a week is absurd

Very much not a joke (and I work there). People can end up in any of these situations: it can range from being made remote permanently, to drive to the local office or being forcefully moved to an office 2+ hours or 5,000 miles away. To prevent people from asking for virtual / remote exceptions, those must be approved by a direct report to the CEO (meaning the highest managers at the company).

Oh my

I'm hoping to get an exception for Fridays

They have offices in Baltimore?

Are the current teams even structured on some kind of a geographic basis or are they going to be reassembling teams or are they just gonna have people come into the office and then have zoom calls with their manager?

We have the majority of teams trying to be at the same office over the last 18 months. But my team, which is 12 people in Boston Baltimore and Seattle, just hired someone in Scotland today.