Amazon will let individual teams decide for how many days corporate employees would be expected to work from office in a week, Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy said in a message to employees on Monday.
Earlier, Amazon’s policy required for employees to return to office from Jan. 3 for at least three days a week.
In his message that was posted on Amazon’s blog, Jassy said the company’s corporate employees will be permitted to work up to four weeks per year fully remotely from any location within the country of employment.
Amazon, one of the largest private employers in the US, would also require its employees to be close enough to their teams to be able to make it to meetings at a day’s notice.
Of course, the new guidelines at Amazon — led by CEO Andy Jassy — won’t affect the majority of its employees, who work in the online powerhouse’s warehouses. REUTERSThe company, which started on-site vaccinations for its frontline employees in the US in March, has taken to a flexible approach to reopening like tech peer Microsoft. which said it would take a site-by-site approach to U.S. office reopenings.
