Amazon to Summon Employees Back to Office 5 Days a Week

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.” “We’ve decided that we’re going to return to being in the office the way we were before the onset of COVID,” the memo read. This new requirement tightens a policy issued in February 2023, in which Jassy demanded that corporate staffers spend at least three days a week in the office....