Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is demanding employees come into the office five days a week, and says it’s not because he secretly wants them to quit.
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00:00Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says their five-day-a-week RTO mandate isn't a masterplan to make people
00:06quit.
00:07Amazon announced the return-to-office mandate in September and was immediately met with
00:10backlash from employees.
00:12Some have theorized that Jassy's RTO plan could be a sneaky way of reducing the company's
00:17headcount rather than go through the formal process of conducting layoffs.
00:21But in an all-hands meeting this week, he denied claims that the RTO plan was a backdoor
00:25layoff.
00:26Amazon told Fortune the RTO plan is meant to strengthen the company's culture and ensure
00:31teams are connected.
00:32The five-day RTO policy takes effect in January with no working from home except for extraordinary
00:38circumstances.