Starting in May, Amazon will require employees to work outside of the office at least three days a week. The company announced the plan in a posted on Friday and attributed to CEO Andy Jassy (). Advocating for the policy, Jassy said a hybrid work arrangement would “strengthen” Amazon’s corporate culture and lead to better collaboration among its workforce.
“It’s not easy to bring thousands of employees back to our offices around the world, so we’re going to give the teams that need to do that work some time to develop a plan,” Jassy said. “We know it won’t be perfect at first, but the office experience will steadily improve in the coming months (and years) as our real estate and facilities teams smooth out the wrinkles and ultimately continue to evolve the way we what we want our offices to be. configured to capture the new ways in which we want to work”.
Shortly after the pandemic began, Amazon said it expected employees to return to the office in October 2020. The company moved to that date multiple times as successive waves of the coronavirus forced cities around the world to shut down. . Amazon’s announcement comes in the same week that Activision would require Blizzard employees to work out of the office at least three days a week starting in July. Amazon has seen many of its workers move to organize in response to company policies. In particular, there was JFK8, the Staten Island facility that became Amazon’s first unionized workhouse when most of its workers . The move also comes after Amazon confirmed earlier this year that it would lay off more than .
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