Amazon Wants Employees To Work From Office At least Three Days A Week

Amazon has announced a change to its previous policy, requiring its corporate employees to spend at least three days per week at the office.

The decision was taken by the company's top executives, or S-team after it was determined that it would improve the company's culture and employees' capacity to learn from and collaborate with each other according to a memo sent out by CEO Andy Jassy on Friday. With few exclusions for positions like customer support that allows for remote work, the move will go into effect on May 1.

Jassy acknowledged that relocating thousands of workers to locations throughout the world would not be simple, therefore the company will allow teams time to come up with a plan. He said that as Amazon's real estate and facilities teams continue to develop and adopt new working methods, the workplace environment would gradually get better over the following months and years.
Amazon is now pushing for its staff to be in the office more regularly as it goes through a period of belt-tightening amid declining sales and a worsening economic outlook. Other companies, including Google and Apple, have already asked some of their employees to return to the office. In addition to a corporate recruiting moratorium and the greatest layoffs in the company's history, which would affect around 18,000 personnel, certain experimental initiatives have been cancelled.

Jassy thinks that returning to work will provide staff members additional chances to innovate and workshop ideas. Breakthrough inventions have come from people who lingered after meetings to brainstorm on a whiteboard or who went back to the office together after a meeting.