Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has decided that employees will have to work five days a week in the office again starting in January. Currently, employees of the webshop have to be in the office at least three days a week, depending on the demands of their team.
Exceptions will be made for special circumstances or in cases where managers have already given permission to work entirely from home, the CEO said in a message to staff.
During the corona pandemic, working from home became the norm in large parts of the world to prevent infections in the workplace.
In February of last year, Amazon required employees to come to the office at least three days a week, to facilitate collaboration and research. The idea was that it would be better to come together physically to generate new ideas. Now, those rules are being tightened even further.
“We understand that some colleagues have arranged their private lives in such a way that returning to the office five days a week will require some adjustment,” Jassy said in the message.
