Amazon is making its employees come back to the office five days a week

Amazon employees volition beryllium required to instrumentality to the bureau 5 days per week starting connected January 2nd, 2025.

“...we’ve decided that we’re going to instrumentality to being successful the bureau the mode we were earlier the onset of covid,” CEO Andy Jassy says in a memo sent to staff connected Monday. Employees person been required to enactment from the bureau 3 days per week since May 2023, and Jassy says that “if anything, the past 15 months we’ve been backmost successful the bureau astatine slightest 3 days a week has strengthened our condemnation astir the benefits.”

Jassy says that staffers won’t person to beryllium successful the bureau to woody with things similar a sick kid oregon a location emergency. “But, earlier the pandemic, it was not a fixed that folks could enactment remotely 2 days a week, and that volition besides beryllium existent moving forward.” Employees who person an approved objection volition beryllium capable to stay remote.

Jassy besides says Amazon is besides upping the ratio of idiosyncratic contributors to managers company-wide by astatine slightest 15 percent by the extremity of Q1 2025. He didn’t explicitly accidental that it would necessitate layoffs but said, “We volition bash this thoughtfully,” and that “Having less managers volition region layers and flatten organizations much than they are today,” Jassy says.