Andy Jassy, chief executive officer of Amazon.Com Inc., during the GeekWire Summit in Seattle, Washington, US, on Tuesday, October 5, 2021.
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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said the company has no plans to order its employees back to the office.
“We’re not planning on asking people to come back,” Jassy said on stage Wednesday at the Code Conference in Los Angeles. “We’re not doing it right now. But we’ll do it adaptively as we learn.”
Amazon Tech Workers was said work from home in early 2020 as the coronavirus spreads rapidly. Last October, Jassy speak Amazon will let individual managers decide how often workers will be required to come to the office, which marks a dramatic reversal from earlier goal return to “office-centered culture.”
Jassy said Wednesday that most employees have returned to the office and will spend a few days working from home. Certain groups tend to be in the office more often, such as hardware or creative units, while others, such as engineers, continue to work primarily remotely, he said. more.
“I think there are some things that are harder to do remotely,” says Jassy. “I think it’s going to be a little harder to invent remotely.”
Jassy has previously said The Covid-19 pandemic could have a lasting impact on how offices are used, noting that it has affected the way Amazon hires employees. For example, Amazon is now more open to remote work and will hire employees from any location, rather than just focusing on “high-volume” areas, he said.
Amazon’s view of remote work differs from some of its tech peers. Google started request Most employees return to the physical office at least three days a week in April, which has generate some feedback among workers who resist delegation. Apple also told Some of the company’s employees come to the office three days a week starting this month.
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