Amazon drops work-from-home policy during Covid-19

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy sent an internal memo asking employees to come to work five days a week.

Like many other major tech companies, Amazon has allowed employees to work from home during the Covid-19 pandemic and has struggled to get them to return to work full-time at the company.

Amazon employees will work at the company 5 days a week starting in 2025

From February 2023, Amazon requires employees to be present at the company 3 days a week, facing reactions.

“As we look back over the past five years, we continue to believe that the benefits of co-location are significant. We’ve found that it’s easier for colleagues to learn, plan, implement, and enhance our culture; collaboration and innovation are simpler and more effective; teaching and learning from others is smoother; and teams tend to connect better,” says Jassy.

The new policy will start from 2.1.2025 to accommodate necessary lifestyle changes.

Special circumstances will still allow remote work as per the pre-Covid-19 regulations. "If you or your child is sick, if you have an emergency at home, if you are on the road to meet a client or partner, if you need a day or two to finish coding in a more isolated environment, you will be able to work remotely," Mr. Jassy wrote in the announcement.

Some labor experts say the move away from remote work could hurt employees who have become accustomed to flexible working arrangements, while others say it could be a way to cut staff. Some Amazon employees are unhappy about returning to work, according to The New York Times .

Amazon said it will cut 300,000 to 350,000 jobs globally in 2023 after a wave of layoffs. That figure does not include warehouse and delivery workers, who make up the bulk of Amazon’s roughly 1.5 million-person workforce.

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