- Amazon (NDAQ:AMZN) has mandated that its employees return to the office five days per week beginning in 2025
- The company’s previous three-day requirement was met with a protest staged by employees across the world in May 2023
- Amazon is the e-commerce and technology giant behind Prime, Amazon Web Services, Kindle, Amazon Echo and Alexa, Fire tablets and Amazon Studios
- Amazon stock has added 32.08 per cent year-over-year and 106.10 per cent since 2019
Amazon (NDAQ:AMZN) has mandated that its employees return to the office five days per week beginning in 2025, up from a previous three-day requirement.
Chief executive officer Andy Jassy described the move as key to “invent, collaborate and be connected enough to each other and our culture to deliver the absolute best for customers and the business,” according to a letter to employees released on Monday.
The move coincides with a return to normality after the COVID-19 pandemic, with an increasing number of companies across industries requiring their employees’ presence at the office.
Amazon has been an especially stringent proponent of this trend, with multiple employees telling Reuters that the company required them to work at distant offices or move to keep their jobs.
Amazon employees, in turn, haven’t shied away from voicing their displeasure, as most recently highlighted by a global protest in May 2023 because of changes to the company’s climate policy, layoffs and its return-to-office mandate.
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Amazon stock (NDAQ:AMZN) last traded at US$184.89 per share. The stock has added 32.08 per cent year-over-year and 106.10 per cent since 2019.
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