Amazon expects employees to report to the office five days per week, CEO Andy Jassy wrote in a companywide memo.

In a social media post on X (formerly Twitter), he wrote, “I’m a former AWS employee: most of the hot takes on Amazon's new strict return-to-office policy are wrong

According to analysis by Inrix, a Kirkland, Wash.-based transportation software and data provider, Amazon’s May 2023 directive — and other back-to-office mandates that followed — had a significant effect on slowing down traffic on major commute routes.

Some Amazon employees have already changed their status on LinkedIn to #opentowork as they openly search for more flexible jobs.

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.

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.

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.com Inc., the colossus of online retail and cloud computing worth more than $1.9 trillion, wants its corporate staff back in the office five days a week starting next year. But for all of Amazon’s clout,

Corporate staff grumble after the e-commerce giant tells employees to be in the office full-time starting next year.

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 CEO Andy Jassy told staff in a memo that barring "extenuating circumstances," employees would be expected to be in the office starting Jan. 2. The move puts Amazon in the same category as companies like Tesla,