The move puts Amazon in the same category as companies like Tesla, which have mandated in-person work policies. Companies in the finance, technology and professional business services industries continue to lead in their use of remote or hybrid policies.

Amazon boss Andy Jassy told corporate staffers in a memo on Monday that they needed to return to the office five days a week by Jan. 2.

Amazon has ordered its near-300,000 corporate employees to return to the office full-time, with the tech giant also announcing plans to cut a number of manager positions. Like most organisations, Amazon moved to remote working for its corporate workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Amazon's return to office announcement is a warning sign for remote workers everywhere. CEOs want to return value to shareholders, and it may well be that bringing people to the office can help with that.

My company got real strict about RTO last year insisting on 3 days in the office and laying off fully remote workers. 9 months later they have dropped the policy.”

Amazon's hard-core move to push employees back into the office five days a week is a signal that — in the tech sector at least — employers have regained some leverage over workers. Why it matters: The labor market has weakened.

Amazon told its staff to return to the office five days a week and Founder and CEO of RexMont Real Estate Adriano Tori is on Good Day Seattle to talk about the impact on housing.

Amazon currently faces disgruntled workers in every direction. Office workers are raging against CEO Andy Jassy's return to office mandate, Fortune reported—which came just as a leaked document reportedly showed that Amazon is also planning to gut management,

Former Amazon Web Services (AWS) software developer John McBride alleges that the company is trying to cut jobs by enforcing a new return-to-office policy. After a year of employment ending in June 2023,