Amazon workers will be expected to return to the office five days a week starting in January, CEO Andy Jassy has announced.
In a message to employees posted on the company’s website, Jassy said he was implementing the change in order to help workers more effectively collaborate.
The shift from a minimum threshold of three days a week imposed in May 2023 will take effect on January 2, 2025. Jassy wrote in the message that he felt the full-time in-person footing would benefit Amazon’s culture and help the company “to deliver the absolute best for customers and the business.” Amazon has had a wild ride through the Covid years, experiencing a massive boom during lockdowns in 2020 and into 2021 but then having to lay off 27,000 workers as the world reopened in 2022 and 2023.
Jassy, who took over from Jeff Bezos as CEO in 2022, added personal emphasis to his message. He noted he has worked at the tech company for 27 of its 29 years of existence.
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