On January 2, Amazon's 350,000 corporate employees will have to return to the office five days a week instead of working a hybrid schedule. After the announcement, employees speculated that the mandate was a way to get them to quit without formal layoffs,

CEO Andy Jassy tried to reassure unhappy workers that ending remote work is not an attempt at a “backdoor layoff.”

Over 500 employees of the firm signed a letter to the CEO of the Amazon Web Services unit, Matt Garman and urged him to reconsider his stance on making employees return to office completely

Last month Matt Garman, the CEO of cloud computing unit Amazon Web Services, suggested that workers who did not want to comply with the full in-office requirement could leave for another company and said that nine of 10 employees he had spoken with supported the change.

Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman acknowledged uncertainty about potential employee departures over the new mandatory five-day return-to-office poli

Hundreds of employees signed a letter criticizing Amazon's 'non-data-driven' reasoning for ending hybrid work. They might have a point.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is pushing back on claims that his return-to-office mandate was a “backdoor layoff.” In a transcript of an all-hands staff meeting seen by Reuters and CNBC, Jassy said the move “is very much about our culture and strengthening our culture.