- Amazon employees will need to be back in offices at least three days per week starting in May.
- Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced the change to corporate employees on Friday.
Amazon's corporate employees will be required to spend at least three days per week working in offices starting in May, CEO Andy Jassy told employees in a $4.
Jassy said the decision was made by himself and Amazon's "s-team" of senior executives this week, and will allow employees to collaborate and communicate more openly with each other by working in person more often.
"I know that for some employees, adjusting again to a new way of working will take some time," Jassy wrote in the Friday note. "But I'm very optimistic about the positive impact this will have in how we serve and invent on behalf of customers, as well as on the growth and success of our employees."
The new policy marks a significant departure from Jassy's prior comments, as he said $4 in September 2022 that the e-commerce giant had no plan to require employees to return to offices. At the time, Jassy said most employees were on a hybrid schedule that was decided on by individual managers.
"We don't have a plan to require people to come back," he said at the event, per $4.$4 "We don't right now. We're going to proceed adaptively as we learn."
He continued: "I do think there are some things that are harder to do remotely. I think it's a little harder to invent remotely."
$4, Jassy axed a similar plan to the one announced Friday that would have required employees to return to offices amid the pandemic, and instead allowed individual teams to decide when their workers needed to be in offices.
Last October, $4 that leaked emails showed Amazon's intent to require up to 200 employees at a Phoenix logistics hub return to the office, even if it meant relocating to the area, or risk possibly losing their jobs.
Earlier this week, $4 that Amazon's stated quest to become "Earth's best employer" — an effort which began just before Jassy took over at the helm — has reportedly had little impact inside the company. Current and former employees told Insider that the initiative lacks clear definition, and little has changed about the company's toxic culture.
Several other large US corporations including Google $4 have announced policies in recent months to require employees spend at least some time in offices, with $4. Over 2,000 Disney employees have reportedly $4 urging CEO Bob Iger to reconsider mandating employees to spend at least four days per week in the office.