Amazon is requiring workers to be in the office five days a week starting next year

[Pelican Press 0]

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

is requiring workers to be in the office five days a week starting next year

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

is reverting to its pre-pandemic policy and will require corporate employees to be

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

five days a week starting next year, CEO Andy Jassy said Monday.

Jassy said in a message shared with employees that the company’s leadership had been thinking in recent months about how to better “invent, collaborate and be connected enough to each other” to deliver the best results for customers and the business.

The company decided that bringing employees back into

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

offices five days a week instead of the three currently required was a way to address that issue, the CEO said.

“When we look back over the last five years, we continue to believe that the advantages of being together in the office are significant,” Jassy wrote in the memo, which

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

also

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

. The policy takes effect on January 2, 2025.

Like many other companies,

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

’s corporate employees

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the company saw massive gains from a boost in online shopping. In 2021, the tech giant implemented a policy that allowed leaders to determine how their teams worked.

In February 2023,

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

asked all employees to come back to the office

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

, resulting in some

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

.

A few months later, Jassy said employees who were not happy about the change should

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

He also issued somewhat of a subtle threat, saying it was “probably not going to work out” for those who refused to do so.

In his note on Monday, Jassy said the company has observed that it is easier for employees to “learn, model, practice and strengthen”

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

’s culture and brainstorm when they’re together in person.

“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,” he said.

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

#

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

#requiring #workers #office #days #week #starting #year

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up