After a plan to lay off 18 thousand workers
Amazon has asked thousands of its workers to return to the office at least 3 days a week, according to a company memo released by CEO Andy Jassy on Friday.
This step, which comes into effect on May 1, marks the end of the company’s remote or hybrid work-friendly policy that was previously in place at Amazon. It also comes a month after Amazon confirmed its plans to lay off more than 18,000 workers amid broader uncertainty in the economy.
In the context of his defense of changing the company’s policy, Jassi argued that working from the office would lead to better cooperation and the transmission of the company’s culture, according to what was reported by “CNN”, and viewed by “Al Arabiya.net”.
“It’s not easy to get several thousand employees back into our offices around the world, so we’ll give the teams that need to do this work some time to develop a plan,” Jassy wrote in the memo. “We know it won’t be perfect in the beginning, but the office experience will steadily improve over the coming months (and years), and eventually we’ll continue to evolve the way we want our offices to work.”
Jassy also said the attendance requirement will give a boost to the local economies where Amazon has offices.
