{"id":22555,"date":"2023-02-19T21:30:40","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T21:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ea884b22-7397-4b81-9d42-c970d92cc26312"},"modified":"2023-02-19T21:30:40","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T21:30:40","slug":"amazon-wants-employees-to-return-to-the-office-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/amazon-wants-employees-to-return-to-the-office-in-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon wants employees to return to the office in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/amazon-wants-employees-to-return-to-the-office-in-may.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Starting in May, Amazon will require employees to work out of the office at least three days per week. The company announced the plan in a <span class=\"waslinkname\"><ins>memo<\/ins><\/span> published on Friday and attributed to CEO Andy Jassy (<span class=\"waslinkname\"><em><ins>via<\/ins><\/em><ins>&nbsp;<\/ins><em><ins>CNN<\/ins><\/em><\/span>). In advocating for the policy, Jassy said a hybrid work arrangement would \u201cstrengthen\u201d Amazon\u2019s corporate culture and lead to better collaboration among its workforce.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not simple to bring many thousands of employees back to our offices around the world, so we\u2019re going to give the teams that need to do that work some time to develop a plan,\u201d Jassy said. \u201cWe know that it won\u2019t be perfect at first, but the office experience will steadily improve over the coming months (and years) as our real estate and facilities teams smooth out the wrinkles, and ultimately keep evolving how we want our offices to be set up to capture the new ways we want to work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"end-legacy-contents\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the pandemic began, Amazon said it expected employees to return to the office in October 2020. The company went on to <span class=\"waslinkname\"><ins>push back<\/ins><\/span> that date multiple times as successive waves of the coronavirus forced cities around the world to lock down. Amazon\u2019s announcement comes in the same week that Activision <span class=\"waslinkname\"><ins>confirmed<\/ins><\/span> it would require Blizzard employees to work out of the office at least three days per week starting in July. <span class=\"waslinkname\"><ins>Like Blizzard<\/ins><\/span>, Amazon has seen many of its workers move to organize in response to the company\u2019s policies. Most notably, there was JFK8, the Staten Island facility that became the first unionized Amazon workhouse when the majority of its workers <span class=\"waslinkname\"><ins>voted to unionize last year<\/ins><\/span>. The move also comes after Amazon confirmed, at the start of the year, it would lay off more than <span class=\"waslinkname\"><ins>18,000 employees<\/ins><\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>All products recommended by Engadget are selected by our editorial team, independent of our parent company. Some of our stories include affiliate links. If you buy something through one of these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. All prices are correct at the time of publishing.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting in May, Amazon will require employees to work out of the office at least three days per week. The company announced the plan in a memo published on Friday and attributed to CEO Andy Jassy (via&nbsp;CNN). In advocating for the policy, Jassy said a hybrid work arrangement would \u201cstrengthen\u201d Amazon\u2019s corporate culture and lead &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22555"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=22555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}