Amazon will require most of its corporate and tech employees to return to the office for a minimum of three days per week, CEO Andy Jassy said in a memo Friday.
Previously, the company had allowed individual leaders to decide whether their teams would return to the office.
- Starting
on May 1, most of Amazon's 300,000-person corporate workforce will be
expected to spend "at least" three days per week in the office, Jassy
said.
- Working on-site makes it "easier to learn, model,
practice, and strengthen our culture when we’re in the office together
most of the time and surrounded by our colleagues," he noted.
- Shifting
to in-person working should also boost businesses around Amazon's urban
headquarters in Seattle, Arlington, Virginia, Nashville, and its
offices around the world, he said.
- The mandate comes after Amazon announced job cuts affecting over 18,000 positions, largely in its Amazon Stores (Go, Fresh, Style) and People, Experience, and Technology organizations.
- Apple and Google also require most corporate and tech staff to be in the office at least three days a week.
