US employees ordered back into the office full-time.

 

Amazon will require employees in the US to return to working at company offices five days per week beginning next year, extending a prior three-day mandate.

 

The change is necessary to "invent, collaborate and be connected", according to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy .

In a post on its website, Jassy said the experience of a three-day mandate "strengthened our conviction about the benefits" of in-office work.

 

Some employees who were consistently out of compliance with the existing three-day mandate were told they were "voluntarily resigning," and were locked out of Amazon's systems.

 

In May last year, workers at Amazon's Seattle headquarters staged a walkout protesting changes to the e-commerce giant's climate policy, layoffs and a return-to-office mandate.