amazon employees will be required to return to the office five days a week starting January 2, 2025.
“We have decided that we will return to the office as we were before Covid,” says CEO Andy Jassy. amazon-return-to-office-manager-team-ratio”>in a note sent to staff Monday. Employees must work from the office three days a week from May 2023, and Jassy says that “if anything, the last 15 months that we've been back in the office at least three days a week has reinforced our conviction about the benefits.”
Jassy says employees won’t have to be in the office to deal with things like a sick child or an emergency at home. “But, before the pandemic, it wasn’t a given that people would be able to work remotely two days a week, and that will be the case going forward as well.” Employees who have an approved exception will still be able to work remotely.
Jassy also says amazon is also increasing the ratio of individual contributors to managers companywide by at least 15 percent by the end of the first quarter of 2025. He didn’t explicitly say it would require layoffs, but said, “We’ll do it in a thoughtful way” and that “having fewer managers will remove layers and flatten organizations more than they are today,” Jassy says.
