Over the past few months, more Americans hired to work from home have been pulled back into the office — even if they live states away.
Continue reading this article with a Barron’s subscription SUBSCRIBE NOW JPMorgan’s Return-to-Office Mandate Sets off Wave of Internal Criticism ByRebecca Ungarino Jan 10, 2025, 5:06 pm EST
Amazon’s return-to-office (RTO) mandate made headlines for all the wrong reasons. Amazon employees will be required to work in person five days per week beginning January 2025. In a September 16 memo announcing the news, CEO Andy Jassy stated, “It’s easier for our teammates to learn...
Jassy also said teams function better when people work together in person, while the company's corporate culture is strengthened. The new mandate goes into effect Jan. 2, 2025. In February 2023, Amazon asked all employees to come back to the office for three mandatory days, resulting in some...
ignore a return-to-office mandate. That followed an earlieremployee walkoutprotesting the policy, where one worker leading the charge insisted, “We can be productive, customer obsessed, we can do our good work, we can make a difference, and it does not have to be in an office...
Among respondents whose companies have already returned to office, 31% say they started requiring workers to come back in 2021, 41% in 2022, and 27% in 2023. The vast majority of respondents in this group say they have seen an improvement in revenue, productivity, worker retention, and more...
No matter how many companies demand that their employees return to the office, the shift to remote work that occurred during the pandemic isn't going anywhere. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy recently told Amazon employees who refuse to come into the office at least three days a week that “it’s ...
Thousands of workers are facing an unsettling reality heading into 2025. After years of working from the comfort of home, they're being told it’s time to return to the office full-time for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic.
Amazon’s return-to-officemandateis shakingemployee confidence. That’s according to apollof more than 700Amazonprofessionals on Glassdoor in the days following Amazon’sannouncementthat it will bring workers to the office five days per week starting in January. Nearly three-quarters of the employe...
JPMorgan Workers Ponder Union in Wake of Return-to-Office Mandate By Rebecca Ungarino Jan 12, 2025, 9:35 pm EST Reprints In this article JPMorgan Chase latest companywide survey of employee opinions showed that work-life balance was a key frustration for workers, an i...