Amazon: No more working from home

Amazon employees are soon to return to the office five days a week. Working together is more efficient and brings the teams closer together, argued CEO Andy Jassy in an email to employees.

Amazon currently allows employees to work from home two days a week. The new regulation should apply from the beginning of January so that employees can adapt their living conditions accordingly, wrote Jassy.

At the same time, it will be possible – as before the coronavirus pandemic – to work from home sometimes, for example if a child is ill or if you want to concentrate on a work task. At the two headquarters of the world’s largest online retailer in Seattle and Arlington near Washington, fixed workstations are also to be reintroduced instead of the usual desk bookings.

After offices remained largely empty for months at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, many companies gradually began to bring employees back from home.

In Seattle, where Amazon has several high-rise buildings in the city center, working from home resulted in a loss of sales in stores and restaurants. Other US technology companies such as Apple found a balance with three days a week in the office.

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