Amazon calls employees back to the office for 5 days a week: end of remote working
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announces return to presence for all employees as of January, eliminating remote work
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Bye bye smart working: Amazon calls employees back to the company five days a week. The ceo of the e-commerce giant Andy Jassy announced the return to presence as of 2 January. Previously, the company had asked employees to work in the office at least three days, depending on the needs of their team. Amazon's plans to return to the office include exceptions for special circumstances or in cases where managers have already granted the employee a stable position working remotely.
"We are aware that some of our employees may have set up their personal lives in such a way that returning to the office for five days a week will require some adjustments," Jassy said in the message, also published on Amazon's corporate blog.
Complicated internal procedures
.The move confirms what some long-standing employees have been muttering for years: it has become more difficult to get things done at Amazon. Stories of endless decision-making processes, pointless meetings and multiplying approval levels have become commonplace in a company that continues to present itself around as a collection of teams tasked with operating as start-ups.
Jassy mentioned some of these phenomena in his note, speaking of "premeetings prior to meetings making decisions, a longer queue of managers who feel they have to review an issue before it goes ahead, initiative managers who feel they do not have to make recommendations because the decision will be made elsewhere".
By the end of March 2025, Jassy stated that every large Amazon organisation will have to increase the ratio of individual employees to managers by 15 per cent. He also announced the establishment of a hotline for employees to raise concerns about unnecessary processes.
