Amazon tells employees to be in the office at least three days a week

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The Amazon headquarters sits virtually empty on March 10, 2020 in downtown Seattle, Washington. In response to the coronavirus outbreak, Amazon recommended all employees in its Seattle office to work from home, leaving much of downtown nearly void of people.John Moore | Getty ImagesAmazon is instructing corporate staffers to spend at least three days a week in the office, CEO Andy Jassy wrote in a memo on Friday.It marks a shift from Amazon’s previous policy, which left it up to individual managers to decide how often their employees would be required to work from the office.Jassy said he and the S-team, a tight-knit group of senior executives from almost all areas of Amazon’s business, decided at a meeting earlier this week that employees should be in the office “the majority of the time (at least three days per week).” They made the decision after determining that it would benefit the company’s culture and workers’ ability to learn from and collaborate with one another.Amazon plans to implement the change on May 1. There will be some exceptions to the rule, Jassy …

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