Amazon wants to set its corporate clock back to before the pandemic. After four years of employees with the online retailer working from home, CEO Andrew Jassy said on Monday he wants all workers back in the office five days a week.To foster a culture of collaboration, "we've decided that...
Last year, employees at Amazon’s Seattle headquarters staged a walkout partly in protest at the group’s return-to-office mandate. Amazon ordering US workers back to the office full-time flies in the face of the push for compressed working hours and flexible working. The UK government, for...
Amazon is bringing employees back to the office five days per week. For some, that's making them question their future at the tech giant.
The decision marks a significant shift from Amazon'searlier return-to-work stance, which required corporate workers to be in the office at least three days a week. Now, the company is giving employees until Jan. 2 to start adhering to the new policy. Corporate employees will be expected to...
Amazon employees will be required to return to the office five days per week starting on January 2nd, 2025. “We’ve decided that we’re going to return to being in the office the way we were before the onset of COVID,” CEO Andy Jassy saysin a memo sent to staffon Monday. Employe...
AT&T will also roll back its remote-work policy starting this month, according to another Business Insider report. The Washington Post also announced that its employees would be required to return to the office five days per week by June 2 (and by February 3 for managers). But Am...
In February 2023, Amazon asked all employees to come back to the officefor three mandatory days, resulting in someprotests from workers. A few months later, Jassy said employees who were not happy about the change shouldlearn to “disagree and commit.”He also...
750 Amazon employees have created a Slack channel calledThink Bigto support CEO Andy Jassy’s decision for most employees to return to the office at least three times a week, starting in May 2023. According to this group of employees, in-person collaboration fosters a strong workplace culture...
He added: “If anything, the last 15 months we’ve been back in the office at least three days a week has strengthened our conviction about the benefits.” Jassy acknowledged that some employees “may have set up their personal lives in such a way that returning to the office consistently...
It’s early days for Amazon employees’ large-scale return to the office, and as Seattle-area commuters get used to the new normal, habits and traffic patterns will adjust. Yet it’s undeniable that Amazon’s RTO rule is impacting many other people beyond its central city campus, and in...