🚨Cue alarm bells across downtown Seattle🚨 As COVID-19 hospitalizations in the area increase, Amazon is moving back its return-to-work date for its white-collar workers to January 2022, reports the Seattle Times. Previously, Amazon planned on bringing back its workers to offices by September 7 (eds. note—that's my birthday). "The delay affects the roughly 60,000 people working in Amazon’s offices in Seattle and Bellevue, as well as tens of thousands more corporate Amazon employees worldwide," notes.
Amazon expects a return to offices by fall
Some workers are miffed while nearby businesses are ecstatic By Katherine Khashimova Long, The Seattle Times
Published: April 1, 2021, 8:46am
Share: Mathis Koos, left, takes a photo of his partner, Valery Freyman, in front of the Amazon Spheres, Wednesday, March 4, 2020, in Seattle. The couple arrived Tuesday from Orlando, Fla. for a week-long vacation, and said the the outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus in the Seattle area did not deter them from their plans. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
SEATTLE – Unlike many of its tech-sector peers, Amazon is eschewing a hybrid workplace.
The Seattle-based commerce giant told employees in a companywide announcement that it is planning a “return to an office-centric culture as our baseline.” The transition away from remote work is expected to wrap up by autumn, according to the announcement Tuesday. Working in offices, the note said, “enables us to invent, collaborate, and