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- The end of flex. On Monday, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced that employees would be mandated to return to the office five days a week. “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,” Jassy wrote in a memo to employees titled “strengthening our culture and teams.”
Jassy acknowledged that “some of our teammates may have set up their personal lives in such a way that returning to the office consistently five days per week will require some adjustments,” but nonetheless, five days is the new expectation come the new year.
