‘Not a Cost Play’: Amazon CEO Clarifies Why Employees Have to Come Back to the Office

On January 2, Amazon’s 350,000 corporate employees will have to return to the office five days a week instead of working a hybrid schedule. After the announcement, employees speculated that the mandate was a way to get them to quit without formal layoffs, but Amazon CEO Andy Jassy reassured employees at an all-hands meeting Tuesday that this was not Amazon’s way of secretly forcing them to quit.

In a leaked transcript seen by Reuters, Jassy states that the move to completely in-person work was to strengthen culture, not cut costs.

“A number of people I’ve seen theorized that the reason we were doing this is, it’s a backdoor layoff, or we

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