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Amazon is asking workers to return to the office five days a week from January, marking the first of the Big Tech companies to require a full week in-office. Chief executive Andy Jassy announced the news in a message to employees, telling them they would be expected to follow the new policy from January 2. Before the change, Amazon employees were required to be in the office three days a week.
“When we look back over the last five years, we continue to believe that the advantages of being together in the office are significant,” Jassy’s note to staff said. “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.” Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post . The news at Amazon comes as more companies pull back on remote work and crack down on enforcing return-to-office policies.
Though Amazon is the first Big Tech company requiring a full week in the office, other tech companies have slowly been tweaking their policies over the past couple of years and taking some hard-line stances. SAP, AT&T and Dell are among those that have rolled back more flexible policies. As a result, some workers have pushed back with threats and protests, or even quit over the new policies.
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