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Starting next year, Amazon will begin expecting many employees to come to work in person five days a week.
CEO Andy Jassy told Amazon employees on Monday that starting Jan. 2, the company will “return to working in offices just like we did before the COVID-19 pandemic,” and that employees are expected to work in the office “unless they have special circumstances or have an approved remote work exception from their senior team leader.”
Starting next year, Amazon will begin expecting many employees to come to work in person five days a week. (Jaque Silva/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images/Getty Images)
This is the latest update to Amazon's rules on in-person and remote work after the tech giant moved from remote to a mandatory three-day in-office schedule last May, among other changes.
Jassy linked the new five-day requirement to Amazon's efforts to “systematize our people to invent, collaborate, and better connect with each other and our culture to deliver what's best for our customers and our business.” According to his message.
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He also pointed to the “huge” benefits he and Amazon believe working in-person brings in terms of culture, engagement, collaboration and training.
Still, the tech giant's CEO acknowledged that Amazon employees were able to work virtually pre-COVID-19 if they had to be sick or travel, and said such situations would be understood “for the foreseeable future.”
The company has headquarters in Seattle, Washington, and Arlington, Virginia, as well as numerous offices around the world and dozens of other corporate locations.
The tech giant moved from remote working to a mandatory three-day in-office schedule in May last year, among other changes. (Marco Bertolello/AFP via Getty Images/Getty Images)
“We will be reinstating desk allocation at locations where we previously had desk allocation, including our U.S. headquarters (Puget Sound and Arlington),” Jassy told employees on Monday. “Locations that had desk allocation in place pre-pandemic, including many locations in Europe, will continue to operate under that model.”
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At the same time, Jassy announced he was adjusting the company's organizational structure.
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According to his message, Amazon has directed all “S-Team organizations” to increase the percentage of “individual contributors” compared to managers by 15% by the end of the first quarter of 2025.
The goal of reducing management layers is to increase employee ownership and speed up decision-making within the company culture, he told employees.
For the first half of this year, Amazon posted total net sales of $291.29 billion. (Pascal Rossignol/Reuters/Reuters Photo)
Jassy said the company's culture has been “one of the most important factors” in its success over the years.
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The tech giant's market capitalization was $1.94 trillion as of Monday afternoon.
For the first half of this year, Amazon reported total net sales of $291.29 billion. Net income for the same period was approximately $23.92 billion.
