Amazon staff to return to office

The online retailer is ordering staff back to the office five days a week beginning in January as it ends its hybrid work policy — staff were previously allowed to work from home during the Covid crisis

      
2020: Covid-19 crisis opens senior leaders’ minds to idea of working from anywhere (WFA). Amazon adopts WFA for two days per week
   
Jul 2021: Andy Jassy (right), Amazon Web Services chief replaces Seattle-based Amazon’s co-founder Jeff Bezos
     

WFA is most prevalent in information, finance and insurance 
Information technology	2.28
Finance, insurance    	2.28 
Amazon 			2.00
Professional, business	1.96 
Arts, entertainment	1.90
Real estate		1.86 
Wholesale trade		1.61
Utilities		1.56
Government		1.40
Health care		1.31
Construction		1.08
Education		1.02
0	0.5	1.0     1.5	2.0	2.5	Days per week


Sep 16, 2024: “We’ve decided that we’re going to return to being in the office the way we were before the onset of Covid” – Jassy

  
Source: Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, and Steven J. Davis, 2021, “Why working from home
will stick,” National Bureau of Economic Research 
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