Amazon to Summon Employees Back to Office 5 Days a Week

The online retailer giant also seeks to reduce layers of managers.
Amazon to Summon Employees Back to Office 5 Days a Week
Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, speaks at the WSJD Live conference in Laguna Beach, Calif., on Oct. 25, 2016. Mike Blake/Reuters
Bill Pan
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Amazon is expecting employees to start working from the office, the same way they did before the COVID-19 pandemic popularized remote work across American corporations.

In a Sept. 16 memo, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said that starting in January 2025, the company will require corporate workers to be in-office five days per week unless there are “extenuating circumstances” or unless they’ve been granted an exception by its most senior group of executives, called the “S-team.”