E-commerce giant Amazon has ordered its employees to return to working at company offices five days a week beginning in January next year.
The order effectively ends the remote working policy that has been in place since the Covid-19 pandemic.
In a letter to employees posted to the company’s website, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said the change is necessary to “invent, collaborate and be connected”.
Until now, a three-day mandate had been in place, which the US-headquartered firm said “strengthened our conviction about the benefits” of in-office work.
Unlike many of its rivals, Amazon has adopted a tougher stance with the mandate in view of waning pandemic. Last year, a return-to-office mandate was met with resistance as workers at the company’s Seattle headquarters had staged a walkout.
The company is aiming to increase the ratio of individual contributions to managers by at least 15 per cent by the end of the first quarter of 2025.