Amazon is forcing its corporate employees to return to the office five days a week – and they’re not happy about it.
Staffers took to Slack to air their grievances after CEO Andy Jassy – who took the helm in 2021 – said in a note on Monday that employees have to return to full in-office work by January.
The return-to-office mandate is a sharp change from its current hybrid policy, which requires employees to work from the office at least three days a week.
“So if I go in 5x week, that means I can leave my laptop at work right? There’s no reason to bring it home,” one staffer fumed in an internal Slack channel seen by Business Insider, referencing Amazon’s intense work culture.
The five-day-a-week mandate is part of an effort to foster collaboration seen pre-pandemic, making it easier for teammates to “learn, model, practice, and strengthen our culture,” Jassy said.
Jassy said the new mandate will operate like most office environments prior to the pandemic. It will be “understood” if an employee has an exceptional circumstance, like a child who is home sick, a house emergency or time spent on the road meeting with clients or partners.
Not all Amazon employees were swayed.
“Please do note that this is (in a lot of cases) significantly more strict and out of its mind than many teams operated under pre-covid,” one employee wrote on Slack, according to BI. “This is not ‘going back’ to how it was before. It’s just going backwards.” --->READ MORE HERE
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Amazon is reverting to its pre-pandemic policy and will require corporate employees to be in the office 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 Amazon 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 Amazon also shared on its website. The policy takes effect on January 2, 2025.
Like many other companies, Amazon’s corporate employees worked remotely 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. --->READ MORE HEREFollow links below to relevant/related stories and resources:
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