Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is effectively dropping its early January office reopening date, instead making the office return a team-by-team decision at the director level, according to an internal email shared with the Business Journal and posted to the company’s blog.
It’s the latest departure from the company’s once rigid reopening guidelines. Earlier this year, Amazon expected corporate employees to be in the office as often as they were before the Covid-19 pandemic. Amazon then relented and said it expected them in the office at least three days a week, citing the need for an office-centric culture. It then pushed its reopening date from September to January.
The decision to return or stay remote will now be made by team leaders, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said Monday in a companywide email. In that note, he said he expects some teams to remain mostly remote, others to split their time and others to move mostly to the office. But he also said the company expects the physical office…
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