World News | Amazon asks company employees to work in the office 3 days a week

NEW YORK, Feb. 18 (AP) — Amazon will ask its corporate workers to return to the office at least three days a week.

Chief Executive Andy Jassy announced the policy in a memo to employees on Friday. It marks a shift from Amazon’s current policy of allowing leaders to dictate how their teams work. The change will take effect on May 1.

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Many companies have been calling employees back into the office after the COVID-19 pandemic forced them to operate virtually.

Last month, Starbucks told its corporate employees to plan to work in the office three days a week. Disney is asking employees to plan for four working days starting in March. Walmart said this week that it will require its technology teams to plan to work in the office regularly.

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In his memo, Jassy said Amazon made the decision after observing what worked during the pandemic. Among other things, the senior leadership team observes employee performance and talks to leaders at other companies, he said. They concluded that employees tend to be more personally engaged and more likely to collaborate, he said.

The move could help the local economy, he said.

“I’m also optimistic that this transition will provide a boost to our urban headquarters in Puget Sound, Virginia, Nashville, and the thousands of businesses around the dozens of cities around the world where our employees work,” said Jia. West wrote.

Jassy said the details of the policy have not yet been finalized. He said he wanted to share the decision as early as possible — a decision made this week at a meeting of the company’s senior leadership team. Certain roles would be exempt from the policy, “but that would be a small percentage,” he said.

Last month, Amazon announced it would cut 18,000 corporate jobs in a bid to slash wages that had rapidly increased during the pandemic lockdown. Other big tech companies, including Salesforce and Google, have been doing the same. (Associated Press)

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