Amazon wants staff back in the office 5 days a week. But WFH is here to stay.
Amazon wants staff back in the office 5 days a week. Your boss isn’t likely to follow suit.
‘It’s kind of weird to me that Amazon is going in this direction,’ says one hybrid-work consultant
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Amazon.com Inc., the colossus of online retail and cloud computing worth more than $1.9 trillion, wants its corporate staff back in the office five days a week starting next year.
But for all of Amazon’s AMZN clout, its plans likely won’t motivate many other businesses to follow with their own five-day in-person workweek, according to some workplace experts. The allure of some work-from-home flexibility is too strong and the worker-retention risks are too real for Monday’s announcement to inspire many copycat companies, those experts said — at least for now.