‘Not a Cost Play’: Amazon CEO Clarifies Why Employees Have to Come Back to the Office
On January 2, Amazon’s 350,000 corporate employees will have to return to the office five days a week instead of working a hybrid schedule. After the announcement, employees speculated that the mandate was a way to get them to quit without formal layoffs, but Amazon CEO Andy Jassy reassured employees at an all-hands meeting Tuesday that this was not Amazon’s way of secretly forcing them to quit.
In a leaked transcript seen by Reuters, Jassy states that the move to completely in-person work was to strengthen culture,