After Disney CEO Bob Iger declared final month that staff might want to spend at the very least 4 days every week within the workplace, he’s getting some pushback this week. Greater than 2,300 staffers have signed a brand new petition to get Iger to rethink the return-office-mandate, The Washington Put up reported Thursday.

“There may be worth in being collectively, however we additionally must look ahead and embrace new paradigms that add worth,” the petition says.

The staff argue that coverage may have “unintended penalties” that would hurt the corporate, together with “pressured resignations amongst a few of our most hard-to-replace expertise and weak communities,” which may result in dramatically decreased “productiveness, output, and effectivity.”

Staffers with disabilities, younger youngsters, or different points that require distant work all gave testimonials within the petition, the Put up reported. 

“I believe everybody has adjusted very well to the pliability at Disney that was rolled out in the course of the pandemic,” an unnamed worker instructed the outlet. “For that to all go away out of the blue was actually scary for lots of people.”

“Flexibility at Disney actually felt like a contemporary begin,” one other worker stated. “Now it appears like we’re shifting backwards.”

Iger returned because the CEO of Disney in November, after leaving the corporate for simply 11 months. In his first 15-year tenure, the 72-year previous former president of ABC managed to extend Disney’s web revenue by over 400%, partly by including high tier manufacturers like Marvel and Pixar to the fold.

The information of worker push again towards Iger’s return-to-office mandates comes after the CEO laid off 7,000 staff as part of a cost-cutting transfer earlier this month. However regardless of their protest, the petition that features greater than 2,300 staffers is only a drop within the bucket for an organization that has greater than 200,000. 

“The work we’re doing to reshape our firm round creativity, whereas decreasing bills, will result in sustained progress and profitability for our streaming enterprise, higher place us to climate future disruption and international financial challenges, and ship worth for our shareholders,” he stated of the layoffs in a assertion.

Disney is way from the one Fortune 500 firm to require staff to return to the workplace over the previous yr. From Large Tech giants like Apple to monetary providers corporations like Vanguard Group, numerous U.S. corporations have been trying to get staff again to the workplace after the pandemic, with various levels of success.

Final month, the CEO of Morgan Stanley quipped that working remotely was “not an worker alternative.” And Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon famously instructed his workers distant work was “not a brand new regular” greater than a yr in the past, however the firm remains to be struggling to achieve pre-pandemic attendance ranges at its Manhattan headquarters. Though constructing occupancy charges in most main cities have rebounded this yr, they nonetheless stay effectively under pre-pandemic ranges as many distant staff proceed to push again on return-to-office mandates.

Jose Maria Barrero, an assistant professor of finance at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), instructed Fortune’s Jane Thier earlier this month that CEOs might need to just accept that some their staff won’t ever return to the workplace. 

“I do assume there will probably be a ceiling for office attendance,” he stated, arguing that 60% in-office attendance would be the most execs can hope for nowadays.

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