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Remote work peaked during the pandemic. Many companies started recalling staff in 2022, but the return has been incomplete.
As of this summer, about 12% of full-time employees in the US were fully remote and another 27% reported having hybrid work policies in place, according to a monthly survey by economists Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, and Steven J Davis.
Bank bosses such as JP Morgan’s Jamie Dimon have been among the most high-profile figures critical of remote work and likely to demand full-time office attendance.
But the attitude has also spread to other industries, with UPS and Dell recalling staff to the office full-time this year.
In his memo, Mr Jassy said that Amazon’s experience with its move to a hybrid policy had “strengthened our conviction about the benefits” of working in person.
But Prof Bloom, from Stanford University, said he did not think the announcements were a sign of a wider shift in work policies, noting that his data has found time spent at the office has been fairly stable for more than a year.
“For every high-profile company cancelling work-from-home, there’s others that seem to be expanding it – they just don’t get picked up in the media,” he said.
