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https://www.fastcompany.com/91192188/amazon-wfh-policy-change-ceo-andy-jassy-orders-return-to-office-5-days-week

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Yay!- Grapevine

Heard Amazon will have 5 days in office starting from January from a reliable source

Growth Manager

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Details: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/andy-jassy-update-on-amazon-return-to-office

Amazon RTO Announcement

- Amazon's HR executive, Beth Galetti, defended the company's 5-day office work policy, stating it's a return to pre-pandemic approach. 
- Galetti mentioned young employees' desire for in-office mentorship as a reason for the policy. 
- CEO Andy Jassy emphasized that office presence facilitates collaboration and strengthens company culture. 
- Amazon is also developing an AI 'culture coach' for employee feedback. 
- Critics argue the policy may lead to resignations due to concerns about commutes, housing costs, and work-life balance.

Source: [Times of India](https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/amazon-defends-5-day-work-from-office-policy-were-trying-to-get/articleshow/114041805.cms)

Amazon Defends Return-to-Office Mandate Amid Employee Backlash

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- Amazon has mandated that staff return to the office five days a week starting next year, one of the strictest post-pandemic policies in the corporate world.
- CEO Andy Jassy emphasized that in-office work enhances learning, collaboration, and cultural integration.
- Exceptions will be made for emergencies and specific projects requiring isolation.
- The company will end hot-desking in the US but continue it in Europe, affecting its 1.5 million employees.
- Amazon's strict policy contrasts with other tech companies like Google, which require only three days of in-office work. 

 Source: [Financial Times](https://www.ft.com/content/401e13fe-d065-4c07-9b51-e21fa38ad6e1)

Amazon Orders Staff Back to Office Five Days a Week

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The fully remote policy was a major factor in my decision to join. Now they're talking about mandatory in-office days. Has anyone successfully pushed back against changing work arrangements? What was your approach?

Company asking us to come back to work.

This is absolutely meme material!! They declared that 75% of employees will work from home by 2025, and before even 2025, they reverted that and now claiming everyone to come to office all 5 days!! I mean not even Hybrid, but all 5 days!! News mentioning recent report of asking employees to come all 5 days- 

https://m.economictimes.com/tech/information-tech/tcs-asks-employees-to-return-to-office-five-days-a-week-may-end-work-from-home-from-october/articleshow/104049381.cms

TCS- From 75% to 0%, that was pretty fast!

- 73% of Amazon employees are considering quitting due to the company's 5-day return-to-office mandate. 
- The survey by Blind revealed 91% of employees are 'overwhelmingly dissatisfied' with the mandate. 
- 80% of employees know a colleague considering job change, 32% know someone who already quit. 
- The mandate has negatively impacted employee morale and poses challenges for parents and caregivers. 
- Previous employee concerns about a 3-day office return were dismissed by Amazon in 2023.
 Source: [Moneycontrol](https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/trends/amazon-employees-73-percent-are-thinking-of-quitting-after-5-day-return-to-office-mandate-survey-12832818.html)

Amazon's 5-Day Office Mandate May Lead to 73% Employee Exodus

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https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/not-going-to-work-out-for-you-amazon-tells-employees-who-refuse-to-return-to-office-3-days-a-week-2428172-2023-08-29

Work from home ends in Amazon

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He was previously the biggest proponent of WFH. But he recently said this: 

Our early analysis of performance data suggests that engineers who either joined Meta in-person and then transferred to remote or remained in-person performed better on average than people who joined remotely. This analysis also shows that engineers earlier in their career perform better on average when they work in-person with teammates at least three days a week

Looks like most companies will kill WFH long term 🤕

Zuck himself is bearish on WFH

Product Marketing Manager

https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/5/23860073/meta-return-to-office-three-days-wfh-work-from-home

Meta goes to 3 days a week WFO, starting today!

Corporate Strategist

Sometimes our company exaggerates basic perks, Are any such good perks applicable in your current company? 

Razorpay: MacBook For Evryone 
Meesho: Work from Anywhere 

Also, Pet sick leave etc

Perks that makes sense

Product Manager

Anyone from hyd. How are you managing hybrid work from office. My office has mandated 2 days / week. My home town is 6hr away from hyd. How are people managing this kind of situation.

Hybrid work model sucks

Software Developer

Kailash (Zerodha CTO) published a blog on Zerodha asking everyone to come back to office - https://zerodha.tech/blog/remoteness-of-remote-work/. Most companies have now gone back to office. 
Do people find work in office (hybrid or fulltime) to be productive? 
How can people convince orgs to be remote or how can companies better convince people to come back to office?

Zerodha announces Return to Office

Engineering manager

I'm a 2023 grad but I've worked in VC/HFT/GSoC/startups

I'm so fed up with the WFO culture. What do you even get by getting employees in office?

What's the point? I'm an engineer, I can write code from anywhere on the planet with internet and laptop.

Been looking for a role since August, while having a solid dev ex yet all these fools are WFO that reduces half the number of companies I want to work for.

Any suggestions or am I being a fool?

RANT: I HATE WFO

In Bangalore Covid cases has started to spike again, please wear mask everyone. Yesterday one person age 62,  passed away due to Covid. 

A leading well known MSME book keeping and Peak XV surged backed startup, has active COVID cases in the office and they are doing nothing about it. I asked the HR and the person was clueless. The positive person themself is informing everyone to be cautious. Health of employees is a joke here. Basic courtesy of informing employees is severely missing. Also not sure what Office Admin/HR leaders plan for our safety. These people will have no impact of their health and their families. I’m expected to come to the office though my work doesn’t require to come to office. I was okay with this. But after hearing Covid cases I have started to feel panicking. 

Also I have isolated myself from my fam and elderly parents. 

In Q4 the organization said it would be transparent. This is how it is planning to do that? Our health doesn't matter? :/

Only making things public, makes them take action. Is this what I have to do every time I need them to meet basic expectations?

If any other company facing this problem? How are you dealing this? Please share ideas to isolate or precautionary measures 🙏

Bangalore people covid is spiking, found cases at my office

Analyst

Now why everyone is talking about benefits of working from office?
I saw post from Sunil Shetty on linkedin.

My take is, when pandemic hit companies asked employees to WFH to keep wheel rolling.
Now we know WFH can give greater control over personal and professional life(at least for me) we don’t want to go back to office.

In my opinion corporate want us to work from office cause,

- they can control our time, 9hrs in ofc, you are getting paid for time not skills.
- they want to show who is the boss here.
- Learning is key reason for WFO, bullshit, we have a lot of learning portals and traffic time can be used to learn but it is never a intention.

What you guys think?

WFH vs WFO

Network administrator

Meesho has asked employees to join the office from June 1 for 1 day a week in hybrid mode. Pretty bad news as many people had changed their lives around work from anywhere policy.
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/startup/meesho-scraps-its-work-from-anywhere-policy-adopts-flexi-office-model-9717961.html

This comes at a time when many offices have opened up, leading to rentals in Bengaluru skyrocketing among other issues.

Yay!

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