Starting next year, Amazon.com will enforce a five-day workweek requirement for its employees, tightening up on a previous three-day requirement.

CEO Andy Jassy stated that the shift is required in order to "invent, collaborate, and be connected" in a statement to staff members that was uploaded on the company website on Monday. The three-day rule, according to him, "strengthened our conviction about the benefits" of working in an office.

Since the epidemic, businesses have been letting many workers work from home, which has resulted in several cities, like San Francisco and Seattle, having almost vacant downtown offices On the other hand, a few IT companies are starting to require workers to come into work two or three days a week.

As the daily danger posed by COVID-19 has decreased, Amazon has adopted a more stringent strategy than many of its competitors. Workers have told Reuters how Amazon has forced them to relocate to Seattle or, in certain situations, report to remote offices in order to maintain their employment.

Additionally, certain workers who routinely disregarded the three-day rule were informed that they were "voluntarily resigning" and had their access to Amazon's system blocked.

A vociferous group of workers has strongly opposed the rule, arguing that working from home is beneficial and saves money and time on transportation. Employees at Amazon's Seattle headquarters staged a walkout in May of last year in protest of the company's changes to its environment policy, layoffs, and need for employees to return to the office.

By the conclusion of the first quarter of 2025, Amazon hopes to have increased the proportion of individual contributors to managers by at least 15% as part of an organizational reform. In the Q&A, Amazon noted certain "some organizations may identify roles that are no longer required" without offering any specifics.

According to the Q&A, Amazon is also discontinuing a previous initiative that gave employees the choice to work from anywhere for four months out of the year.