Amazon AWS Head Tells Employees 'There Are Other Companies' If They Don't Want To Return To Office

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Matt Garman, head of Amazon Web Services, told employees at a town hall meeting Thursday that “there are other companies around” if employees don’t want to return to prepandemic office expectations. Starting in January, Amazon will require employees to work from the office five days a week.

By Lauren Rosenblatt, The Seattle TimesA pedestrian walks near the Amazon Spheres on the company's corporate campus in downtown Seattle in 2021.

Starting in January, Amazon will require employees to work from the office five days a week, a change from the current three-day-a-week policy that has been in effect since spring 2023. “If there are people who just don’t work well in that environment and don’t want to, that’s OK … There are other places, but at Amazon, we want to be in an environment where we are working together.”

Amazon faced intense pushback from workers shortly after announcing it would require employees to be in the office three days a week in February 2023. Thousands of workers signed a petition asking the company to reconsider and hundreds participated in a walkout protesting the mandate. It helps colleagues “learn, model, practice and strengthen our culture,” Jassy said. “If anything, the last 15 months we’ve been back in the office … has strengthened our conviction about the benefits.”

 

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