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Inside limbo amazon1/4/2024 ![]() ![]() “It's classic Amazon,” says Mikaela Kiner, the CEO and founder of human resources consulting firm Reverb. They have until January 3 to make their final calls. Some will undoubtedly keep Zooming away as deemed appropriate.Ĭritically, the burden of those decisions will fall on director-level employees overseeing different groups. For that reason alone, “there won't be a complete move outside corporate offices.” Still, pre-pandemic levels of office occupancy are unlikely, he says. “What Amazon is doing is pretty much consistent with what everybody else in the industry is doing,” says Vladimir Dashkeev, an assistant professor of economics at Seattle University.ĭashkeev adds that security-sensitive positions mean that some corporate employees will have to visit HQ. Microsoft has also postponed its office return indefinitely. The update, then, is more keeping up with the Joneses than revolutionary. He also wants workers to be able to attend in-person meetings with a day's notice. ![]() Jeff Bezos’s successor doesn’t mention a fully remote setup in his note, only hybrid in-person and out-of-office arrangements. An indefinite plan is not a permanent one, and Jassy’s words are plenty couched. “How can we survive?” one told GeekWire.īut the change in policy isn’t a death knell for the neighborhood. Small businesses in the neighborhood have suffered without Amazon employees’ daily presence. It's a shift that, coupled with Jassy’s recent remarks about moving jobs to Bellevue, could be interpreted as a harbinger of a South Lake Union uproot. Some teams, theoretically, could always work from home. “We expect that there will be teams that continue working mostly remotely, others that will work some combination of remotely and in the office, and still others that will decide customers are best served having the team work mostly in the office,” Jassy said. On Monday, Jassy wrote that the baseline of three days per week in-office was gone. Now the e-commerce giant has finally given up on assigning a date to more normalcy. ![]()
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