{"id":8641,"date":"2023-02-19T08:11:25","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T08:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/amazon-asks-staff-to-work-in-office-at-least-three-days-a-week\/"},"modified":"2023-02-19T08:11:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T08:11:25","slug":"amazon-asks-staff-to-work-in-office-at-least-three-days-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/amazon-asks-staff-to-work-in-office-at-least-three-days-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon asks staff to work in office at least three days a week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <p><a href=\"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/online-workshops-list\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-496\" src=\"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/RETAIL-ONLINE-TRAINING-728-X-90.png\" alt=\"Retail Online Training\" width=\"729\" height=\"91\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/RETAIL-ONLINE-TRAINING-728-X-90.png 729w, https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/RETAIL-ONLINE-TRAINING-728-X-90-300x37.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 729px) 100vw, 729px\" \/><\/a><\/p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-130497\">\n<div class=\"td-post-content tagdiv-type\">\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.retailgazette.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/shutterstock_1908911350-696x464.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.retailgazette.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/shutterstock_1908911350-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.retailgazette.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/shutterstock_1908911350-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.retailgazette.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/shutterstock_1908911350-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.retailgazette.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/shutterstock_1908911350.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" alt=\"Amazon\" title=\"Amazon\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amazon asks staff to work in office at least three days a week<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h6><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\/\/<\/span> Amazon has asked staff to return to the office at least three days a week<\/h6>\n<h6><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\/\/ <\/span>CEO Andy Jassy informed staff yesterday. Previously directors decided the right working model for their time<\/h6>\n<hr\/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon has asked staff to be in the office at least three days a week from May.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CEO Andy Jassy said its leadership team believe it is easier to \u201clearn, model, practice, and strengthen its culture\u201d when in the office as well as \u201ccollaborate and invent\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Amazon leadership team made the decision this week and wrote to all employees to tell them: \u201cWe should go back to being in the office together the majority of the time (at least three days per week.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h5><strong>Subscribe to Retail Gazette for free<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><span class=\"x_al\">Sign up\u00a0here\u00a0to g<\/span><span class=\"x_al\">et the latest news straight into your inbox each morning<\/span><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jassy said it had observed various models of working and had also found that learning from one another is easier in-person and teams also tend to be better connected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The online giant last updated about working practices in the wake of the pandemic in the second half of 2021, when it said that director-level leaders would decide where their teams would work and would \u201cexperiment for the next chunk of time\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jassy did concede that certain roles such as sales and customer support would not need to come to the office three days a week but said these exceptions would be in \u201ca small minority\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He also pointed out that its decision would boost thousands of businesses located around its offices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Amazon is one of many tech giants that is cutting staff. It was revealed last month that it would cut over 18,000 jobs from its workforce amid economic uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Click here to sign up to Retail Gazette\u2018s free daily email newsletter<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<footer>\n<\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/online-workshops-list\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-496\" src=\"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/RETAIL-ONLINE-TRAINING-728-X-90.png\" alt=\"Retail Online Training\" width=\"729\" height=\"91\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/RETAIL-ONLINE-TRAINING-728-X-90.png 729w, https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/RETAIL-ONLINE-TRAINING-728-X-90-300x37.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 729px) 100vw, 729px\" \/><\/a><\/p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon asks staff to work in office at least three days a week \/\/ Amazon has asked staff to return to the office at least [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magazines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmsretail.com\/RetailNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}