Previously, Amazon left it up to individual managers to decide how often their teams would be required to work in the office.
, which left it up to individual managers to decide how often their employees would be required to work from the office.
Jassy said he and the S-team, a tight-knit group of senior executives from almost all areas of Amazon's business, decided at a meeting earlier this week that employees should be in the office"the majority of the time ." They made the decision after determining that it would benefit the company's culture and workers' ability to learn from and collaborate with one another.Sign up for NECN newsletters.
Amazon plans to implement the change on May 1. There will be some exceptions to the rule, Jassy said, such as customer support roles, which have the option of working remotely. "It's not simple to bring many thousands of employees back to our offices around the world, so we're going to give the teams that need to do that work some time to develop a plan," Jassy said.
Other companies have recently called their employees back to the office either full time or several days a week as the Covid-19 pandemic has eased.
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