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Amazon's 5-day office push may be the beginning of the end for remote working

Amazon is requiring its corporate employees to come into the office five days a week. nycshooter/Getty, Tyler Le/BIAmazon is asking all office-based staff to go to the office five days a week from January.One expert says the move could negatively affect morale, engagement, and employee work-life balance.Other companies could follow Amazon's lead if the move proves successful.Amazon is waving goodbye to remote work.Starting in January, corporate employees must go into the office five days a week.Workers were previously told to come in at least three days a week, but Amazon seems eager to end pandemic-era habits.In a memo sent to staff on Monday, CEO Andy Jassy said: "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."The memo outlined extenuating circumstances such as illness, a household emergency, and the need to finish coding in a more isolated environment as scenarios when remote work may be permitted.Jassy added that Amazon will bring back assigned desks in offices that used to have them, including its two headquarters in Washington state and Arlington, Virginia, which together have about 88,000 employees.Negative impact"We have seen that when people are mandated to attend work, they will resist if they can," Gemma Dale, a senior lecturer in Liverpool John Moores University's business school, told Business Insider."I would expect that there is a real potential some employees will look for other opportunities," she said.Dale suspected that even for those who stay, there could be a negative impact on morale, engagement, and employee work-life balance."Savvy employers in the same space might well see this as a talent acquisition opportunity," she said.

 

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