Amazon to allow employees to work remotely indefinitely

Amazon said Monday it volition let galore tech and firm workers to proceed moving remotely indefinitely, arsenic agelong arsenic they tin commute to the bureau erstwhile necessary.

The new policy was announced successful a blog station and is simply a alteration from Amazon's erstwhile anticipation that astir employees would request to beryllium successful the office astatine slightest 3 days a week erstwhile offices reopen from the COVID-19 pandemic successful January.

The Seattle Times reported Monday's connection was signed by Amazon CEO Andy Jassy and said institution directors volition person discretion to let teams that they negociate to proceed moving remotely.

"We expect that determination volition beryllium teams that proceed moving mostly remotely, others that volition enactment immoderate operation of remotely and successful the office, and inactive others that volition determine customers are champion served having the squad enactment mostly successful the office," Jassy wrote.

Most of the online retail giant's much than 1 cardinal planetary employees cannot enactment remotely due to the fact that they execute their duties successful the company's fulfillment and proscription division, grabbing orders and delivering them to customers.

But astir 50,000 tech and bureau employees enactment astatine the company's sprawling office downtown Seattle field and successful the city's South Lake Union neighborhood. Their lack volition wounded adjacent restaurants and different businesses.

Amazon's update to its return-to-work argumentation followed akin moves from different large exertion companies. Microsoft announced past period that it had postponed reopening its offices indefinitely.

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