Amazon CEO Andy Jassy Supports Remote and Hybrid Work, No Plans on Returning to Office

As CNBC reported first, Amazon's Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy has no plans to order the company's employees in the corporate division to return to their physical offices.

The CEO stated on Wednesday at the Los Angeles Code Conference that the company will adapt the setup as the employees continue to learn. He also added that even if most employees have already returned to their own offices, there will also be days when they do not need to report to the office physically.

This will depend on the team that the employees are working with as some will tend to be at the office more often, which are teams from hardware units and creative units. Meanwhile, the team, who has a lot of engineers, will be working more remotely.

"I do think there are some things that are harder to do remotely. I think it's a little harder to invent remotely." Jassy stated.

Start of the Work-From-Home Set-Up

Workers from the company were told in March 2020 to stay at home as cases of COVID-19 arose during this time. This is where the lockdowns started, and other companies have adapted to work from their homes.

Through this, social distancing will be implemented and may lessen the spread of public transportation. During this month, there were more than 100,000 confirmed cases, and several deaths were already reported.

Last October 2021, Jassy said in a memorandum that he will give the decision to the individual team managers on how often their employees will come to work. The memo also stated that the company will be setting a baseline of three days per week in reporting physically.

Slower Hiring of Amazon

In recent years, Amazon was on a hiring spree to keep up with the demand as customers increased day by day. The Wall Street Journal reports that this will be halted as Jassy told that the company will be taking back its old rate of hiring, a much lower and slower process.

"I don't think that you'll see us hiring at the same rates that we did, but we'll be hiring," he stated at the same conference.

Aside from being affected by the pandemic, low sales and the second straight quarter of net loss were enough reasons for them to cut costs and reduce new employees. The annual sales growth of the company was marked as the slowest growth after almost two decades.

Staten Island Union

April this year when workers from Amazon JFK8 warehouse voted to firm its first United States union which garnered more than 2,600 workers. They voted to join the Amazon Labor Union and became the first group to unionize the company's said facility.

An official from the National Labor Relations Board recommended last September 1st to reject Amazon's objection to a historic union election. Although the company has only 15 days to appeal the recommendations, Jassy made it clear at the conference that he is unwilling to accept the outcome of this election.

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Written by Inno Flores