Amazon is telling its thousands of
corporate workers to return to the office five days a week, the company’s CEO
Andy Jassy said in a staff memo on Monday.
Like many tech giants, Amazon had allowed workers to stay at home during
the Covid-19 pandemic and has struggled to get them to come back into the
office full-time.
Amazon had already ordered a three-day office presence in February 2023.
“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 told
employees.
“We’ve observed that it’s easier for our teammates to learn, model,
practice, and strengthen our culture; collaborating, brainstorming, and
inventing are simpler and more effective; teaching and learning from one
another are more seamless; and teams tend to be better connected to one
another,” he said.
Jassy said that to accommodate the lifestyle changes necessary, the new
policy would start on January 2, 2025.
After a wave of layoffs, in 2023 Amazon was reported to have 300,000 to
350,000 corporate employees globally.
This number is separate from their warehouse and delivery workers, who make
up a much larger portion of Amazon’s total workforce of about 1.5 million.(AFP)
