For all of Amazon’s clout, its plans likely won’t motivate many other businesses to follow with their own five-day in-person workweek, according to some workplace experts.

Amazon boss Andy Jassy told corporate staffers in a memo on Monday that they needed to return to the office five days a week by Jan. 2.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's decision to force employees back into the office five days a week beginning in January will likely reduce productivity, one analyst warns.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced a full return to office mandate to be implemented in January 2025. Why are companies like Amazon afraid of remote work? Experts weigh in.

Amazon currently faces disgruntled workers in every direction. Office workers are raging against CEO Andy Jassy's return to office mandate, Fortune reported—which came just as a leaked document reportedly showed that Amazon is also planning to gut management,

Amazon's announcement could prompt other companies to introduce stricter in-office requirements for employees by the end of 2024, says one workplace expert.

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.

It definitely worries me that it might set a precedent for other large tech companies,” says Fred, an Apple employee.