Amazon is ordering staff back to the office five days a week, ending its hybrid work policy.
The company´s employees are currently allowed to work from home two days a week.
Starting in January, the change will come into full force. Workers will have the option to work from home on occasions such as caring for a sick child or focusing on specific tasks.
Amazon’s chief executive, Andy Jassy, sent the news in a memo to staff.
“We’ve decided that we’re going to return to being in the office the way we were before the onset of Covid,” he said.
Jassy has long been known as a sceptic of remote work. He claims it would help staff be “better set up to invent, collaborate, and be connected to each other”.
Additionally, Andy claimed he was worried that Amazon was seeing its corporate culture diluted by flexible work.
Amazon’s push to get corporate staff back into the office has been a source of tension within the firm.
At their Seattle headquarters, staff staged a protest last year as the company tightened their remote work policy.
The company subsequently fired the organiser of the protest, prompting claims of unfair retaliation.
Mr Jassy, who replaced Jeff Bezos in 2021, said he had created a “bureaucracy mailbox”. Here, staff can make complaints about unnecessary rules.
Additionally, Amazon said it would end hot-desking in the US, although it will continue in most of Europe.
The company said staff could still work from home in unusual circumstances.
But unless they have been granted an exemption, Jassy said “Our expectation is that people will be in the office.”
