Amazon has announced that it will allow company managers to determine when the company's employees need to return to the office, and if that happens, it will be a major change from its previous position that workers must To resume work from offices in January.

We don't intentionally specify the number of days — this is something that managers decide with senior team leaders, CEO Andy Gacy said in an email to employees. Decisions should be guided by what will be most effective for our clients; It is not surprising that we continue to evaluate all of us through the way we present to clients, regardless of where the work is carried out.

And like many companies, Amazon adjusted plans to return to work amid a boom in the Delta variant a few months ago, as the company wanted employees back in early September.

Two months ago, according to Al Arabiya.net, this timing was pushed back to early January. Previously, the company also encouraged employees to go to the office at least 3 days a week.

This comes as the pandemic has forced companies to rethink their policies around where people work, and Amazon has been the latest to indicate that it is open to more business being done. Perform it permanently remotely.

Amazon employs more than 75,000 people in the Seattle area, most of whom work in the company's headquarters complex and in nearby Bellevue. The company also has major offices in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, Boston, the Los Angeles area, and a new campus site under construction near Washington.