A former Amazon engineer left the company after facing growing anxiety about when he would be required to go back into the office. He quit and joined another tech firm that was fully remote in July, shortly before Amazon bumped up its in-office policy requiring employees to come in five days a week. Daniel, who didn't want to provide his last name to keep his anonymity, told FOX Business that becoming an Amazon Web Services software development engineer felt like his "big break.
The e-commerce behemoth, which employs more than 1.46 million people worldwide, has a network of offices, including its home base in Seattle and its second headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. CEO Andy Jassy on Monday told employees the tech giant was "going to return to being in the office in the way we were before the onset of COVID," effective Jan.