While Amazon’s stance is less draconian than Musk’s — who told Tesla staff in 2022 if they are not in the office at least 40 hours a week they can “pretend to work somewhere else” — the policy puts Amazon at odds with most of its tech rivals.

Love it or hate it, remote work was good for Seattle’s traffic problem. With Amazon’s announcement this week that it wants thousands of corporate and tech workers in the office five days a week, expect congestion into and of the city to get worse.

Amazon's hard-core move to push employees back into the office five days a week is a signal that — in the tech sector at least — employers have regained some leverage over workers. Why it matters: The labor market has weakened.

Amazon's return to office announcement is a warning sign for remote workers everywhere. CEOs want to return value to shareholders, and it may well be that bringing people to the office can help with that.

My company got real strict about RTO last year insisting on 3 days in the office and laying off fully remote workers. 9 months later they have dropped the policy.”

Amazon.com Inc., the colossus of online retail and cloud computing worth more than $1.9 trillion, wants its corporate staff back in the office five days a week starting next year. But for all of Amazon’s clout,

Amazon told its staff to return to the office five days a week and Founder and CEO of RexMont Real Estate Adriano Tori is on Good Day Seattle to talk about the impact on housing.