Amazon CEO says the company has no plans to make its corporate employees return to the office

Amazon doesn't plan on making its corporate employees return to the office via a company-wide mandate, according to the company's CEO.

He said in an onstage interview that they don't have a plan to require people to return. Right now, we do not. As we learn, we will proceed adaptively.

According to CNBC, Jassy stated that most Amazon corporate employees are working on a hybrid schedule and that certain sections of the company, like its hardware and creative teams, are in the office more often.

Some things are more difficult to do remotely. He said that it's a little harder to create something remotely.

"We have to deliver the right results for customers, and people understand whether they work remotely or in an office that that has to be the number one priority," he said. We'll see over the next year as we try a lot of experiments.

Other high-profile companies require employees to report for work at their offices at least several days a week.

Since April, employees in several US locations have been required to return to the office at least three days a week, with the option of working from anywhere. Last month, Apple ordered employees to work in the office at least three days a week, inciting a petition from office workers who said they could produce exceptional work from home.

hybrid work schemes are offered by investment banks.

Meta, which was then still called Facebook, announced last April that it would allow its employees to work from home after the swine flu.

Jassy had called off the company-wide requirement to be in the office at least three days a week.

Jassy said there was no one-size-fits-all approach for how every team worked. Individual teams will decide if they want to work from home or in the office.

In January, he said that remote work would continue to be a part of people's lives after the swine flu. After the Omicron variant caused another bout of infections and temporarily closed the office, companies have struggled to get all of their employees back to work.

He thinks people will come back in bigger numbers than before, but he doesn't think it will look the same.