Subj : No more working from home  Amazon orders employees back to the of
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Tue Sep 17 2024 15:15:05

No more working from home  Amazon orders employees back to the office five 
days a week

Date:
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 14:03:00 +0000

Description:
Amazon workers were previously only required to work three days per week.

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has told employees that they must return to in-person 
working five days per week, spelling an end to hybrid working at the company. 

In a memo, Jassy started workers have until January 2 to make the change, 
which is a marked difference from the company's current three day per week 
policy. 

Before the pandemic, it was not a given that folks could work remotely two 
days a week, and that will also be true moving forward  our expectation is 
that people will be in the office outside of extenuating circumstances," his 
memo read. Bureaucracy Mailbox 

 The company has also revealed plans to restructure, aiming for fewer 
managers in order to remove layers and flatten organizations, Jassy 
confirmed. The companys senior teams will be asked to increase its ratio of 
contributors to managers by at least 15% by Q1 of 2025. 

Under its new CEO, Amazon has slowed its recent expansions somewhat, with the 
total employee number growing just 5% this year, bringing the total to 1.53 
million employees. In comparison, in the second quarter of 2022, the 
workforce expanded by 14%. 

Jassy's memo highlighted a newly created "bureaucracy mailbox" where 
employees are encouraged to report any unnecessary processes and bureaucracy 
that has crept in so that the company can root it out. 

We want to operate like the worlds largest startup. Jassy explains. That 
means having a passion for constantly inventing for customers, strong urgency 
(for most big opportunities, its a race!), high ownership, fast 
decision-making, scrappiness and frugality, deeply-connected collaboration 
(you need to be joined at the hip with your teammates when inventing and 
solving hard problems), and a shared commitment to each other. 

The news comes shortly after big spending elsewhere within Amazon, especially 
on an enhanced Delivery Service Partner program (DSP), with an investment of 
$2.1 billion. The DSP hopes to improve efficiency, which is clearly a focus 
company-wide. 

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