Amazon is now the latest major company to announce a return-to-office mandate, as employees were notified at the beginning of this week that they will be expected to be in the office 5 days a week beginning January 2, 2025. Employees have been required to show their faces in person since May of last year, but a memo sent around the company by CEO Andy Jassy says that things will be going back to the way they were pre-pandemic.
“..We’ve decided that we’re going to return to being in the office the way we were before the onset of COVID,” writes Jassy. “When we look back over the last five years, we continue to believe that the advantages of being together in the office are significant…in summary, 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. 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.”
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Jassy states that that concessions will be given for events like emergencies or sick children, but that working remotely twice a week will not be a given.
