Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman made headlines this week for putting his feelings plainly when it comes to the company’s five-day-in-office policy.
“If there are people who just don’t work well in that environment and don’t want to, that’s okay, there are other companies around,” Garman said. “By the way, I don’t mean that in a bad way,” he said, adding “we want to be in an environment where we’re working together.”
He made the remark Thursday at an Amazon Web Services – or AWS – meeting on Thursday, reported by Reuters.
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Amazon recently announced a return-to-office policy
The remark comes a month after Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced that employees would be required to switch from the three-day-in-office schedule to five days per week.
Prior to Jassy’s September announcement, employees had returned to the office three days a week, which strengthened the company quite a bit, he said. He added that the company plans to bring back “assigned desk arrangements in locations that were previously organized that way.”
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