Jassy was quoted trying to rally the remaining employees, saying that they will “redefine” the company in a transformation likely to be “misunderstood” by the market. And like much of Big Tech, Amazon also announced big layoffs, cutting 18,000 jobs. But we’re going to proceed adaptively as we learn.” Still, at the talk, he hinted that his preference was for in-person work, adding that inventing is more difficult in a remote space.Īmazon has had a rough couple of quarters: After a weak Q3 earnings report, the company’s value dropped below $1 trillion in November for the first time since early 2020. I’ve spent the last couple months talking to Jassy’s coworkers and friends for a profile on the 53-year-old executive.
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“We don’t have a plan to require people to come back,” Jassy said at the Code Conference in Los Angeles.
Just last September, Jassy had a different stance on remote work. Jassy acknowledged that this will take some time to figure out, as Amazon’s work-from-home policy was previously left to team leaders to decide. “When you’re in-person, people tend to be more engaged, observant, and attuned to what’s happening in the meetings and the cultural clues being communicated,” he said, explaining that people can ask ad hoc questions more frequently and understand how people are processing information. Being in the office will also give new hires the opportunity to learn and be mentored, he added. That begins with boosting employee performance, Jassy wrote, adding that he believes learning from others, mentoring, and experiencing culture is easiest when Amazonians are in the office with their peers. Newly minted Amazon CEO Andy Jassy faces his first major public test as the head of the tech behemoth Wednesday, as he joins fellow tech CEOs to discuss national cybersecurity concerns with President Joe Biden. In the memo, Jassy explained that working remotely, hybrid, and in person for almost three years has led the company to decide “we should go back to being in the office together the majority of the time (at least three days per week).”Įxplaining that the call was made during a senior leadership team (the s-team) meeting earlier this week, he added that the decision boiled down to the executives prioritizing “what would best enable” Amazon to make customers’ “lives better and easier every day, and relentlessly invent to do so.”
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