Amazon's planned return to office for all employees five days a week in January is facing delays due to unprepared office spaces.
Some Amazon workers won't be returning to the office five days a week in January because the office isn't ready for them. Amazon workers would be required to return to the office five days a week, up from the current three, starting Jan. 2. The update will affect its roughly 170,000 corporate employees.
But staffers in Atlanta, Houston, Nashville, and New York were recently notified by the tech company's real estate team that their full-time RTO policy will not be in effect until their workspaces are ready, which could be as late as May, according to documents reviewed by Business Insider. Amazon did not answer questions from CNBC Make It and provided a statement that office buildings will be ready for a majority of workers by Jan. 2. Some locations may have different timelines, and the company is communicating directly with employees in those locations. The company previously indicated that all employees should be ready to report to the office full-time by January, whether or not their dedicated space was ready. Amazon encountered a similar issue in 2023 when it began requiring workers to badge in three times a week. Though workers were expected to make their return by May, memos to workers in New York, Austin, and elsewhere showed their spaces wouldn't be ready until the summer, in some cases as late as September, to up their own RTO requirements to five days a week. Amazon's cloud boss Matt Garman said unhappy workers could announcing the new five-day requirement: 'We've observed that it's easier for our teammates to learn, model, practice, and strengthen our culture; collaborating, brainstorming, and inventing are simpler and more effective; teaching and learning from one another are more seamless; and, teams tend to be better connected to one another,' he wrote
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Amazon Delays Full Office Return for Some WorkersAmazon's plan to bring all employees back to the office five days a week in January is facing delays due to unfinished office spaces. Workers in certain locations, including Atlanta, Houston, Nashville, and New York, have been informed that their full-time return-to-office policy will be postponed until their workspaces are ready, potentially as late as May.
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